NEWS FEED
The Thomas Hardye School united students yesterday on Wednesday 13 July to mark Srebrenica Memorial Week with a friendly football match.
July 11 was the 21st anniversary of the genocide of 8,372 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica – a town in the easternmost Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina – who were murdered on account of their Islamic faith.
The event at The Thomas Hardye School ran in parallel with events organised throughout the country by the charity Remembering Srebrenica.
Remembering Srebrenica, who are organising events all over the country, say that parallels between the anti-Islamic rhetoric in the Balkans in the 1990s and in the UK today are striking. Hate crime in the UK, particularly religious hate crime, has risen dramatically, with reports of a 57% increase in hate crime in the immediate aftermath of the EU Referendum.
On the day, Head-teacher Mike Foley read an address detailing what happened at Srebrenica in 1995. There followed a minutes silence, which was very well observed.
The game was won 2-0 by a combination of Napier and Trenchard Colleges against a joint Henning Stratford Team.
