ABSTRACT
The Muslim commemorations of the massacre taking place opposite the former Dutchbat compound in Potori and the Serb counter-commemorations organized in the nearby villages of Kravica. The ways in which Serbs and Muslims were encouraged or discouraged to remember and commemorate crucial episodes from their history, especially World War II, affected the processes of retrieval of war memories at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s. Serbian hegemony in the way World War I was remembered and commemorated was also visible in Srebrenica. In 1924, the Serbs erected a monument in the centre of the town, honouring a Serb volunteer unit led by Kosta Todorovi that had suffered many casualties at the start of the war. Muslims have attempted, through commemorations and the creation of a monument, to re-establish their presence in Srebrenica and to symbolically undo the results of Serb ethnic cleansing and genocide, most notably through the creation of the Potoari Memorial Centre.
