Travelling coffee-cup memorial for Srebrenica's dead comes home


  • World
  • Friday, 10 Jul 2020

A volunteer helps prepares the installation of some 8,000 traditional porcelain cups filled with Bosnian coffee at the Potocari-Srebrenica Memorial Centre for victims of the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serb forces, in eastern Bosnia, July 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - More than 8,000 traditional Bosnian coffee cups are being set up in the town of Srebrenica as a memorial for each of the Muslim men and boys massacred there by Serb forces 25 years ago, many now buried in a nearby cemetery.

The porcelain cups are part of a "Where Have You Been" exhibit that a Bosnian-born American artist created in 2006 and took around the world before bringing them home to stay for the 25th anniversary of Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

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