Dear friends, We now have it in black and white: the so-called prosecutor in Bijeljina has asked the Zvornik police - the police in the town that is itself the largest mass grave in Europe - to enter the Srebrenica Memorial Center and seize documents. In recent months and weeks, both my staff and I have been subjected to police harassment, mistreatment and discrimination. We are now facing the threat of armed, masked men entering the Memorial Center and ransacking the premises. The document below is a letter from the so-called prosecutor in Bijeljina to our lawyers, confirming what I have been warning about. Let me be absolutely clear: we will not cooperate with the Bosnian Serb police and/or prosecutor. Anything they want from the Srebrenica Memorial Center, they will have to take by force.

The only regrettable thing in this entire affair is that @vonderleyen refuses to call things by their rightful name. Five Serbian government ministers attended. Serbian soldiers stood guard over his coffin. His body was transported in a Serbian government aircraft, under the Serbian state flag. If this is not state involvement, what is? In any case, we will remember who stood with us and who looked away. We will especially remember it the next time an EU official asks to visit @SrebrenicaMC. We have had enough of people paying lip service to the victims while proceeding to shake hands with politicians dreaming of future genocides.

I received dozens of phone calls yesterday. Friends called. Fellow survivors called. Journalists called. And the simple fact is: I don’t know what to say about, or care to comment on, the abomination that died yesterday in the UN detention unit in Scheveningen. Instead, I helped my daughters make “jewellery” out of little bits and bobs. We did some bedtime reading. I put them both to sleep. My life has moved on. My children will not grow up in the same shadows I did. And the next time someone like Ratko Mladić appears on the horizon - and he will without a doubt - we will wait for no one’s permission to confront him. We will know what we are looking at. We will know what is at stake. And we will deal with it ourselves.

Ratko Mladić je mrtav i tu nema mnogo šta da se kaže. Niti ta činjenica mijenja mnogo. Ne vraća mrtve. Ne briše masovne grobnice. Ne mijenja presude. Ne pretvara zločinca u historijsku ličnost. Gledao sam ga u oči u julu 1995. godine, u Potočarima. Gledao sam čovjeka koji je već odlučio šta će se dogoditi ljudima oko mene, uključujući i dominantnu većinu ljudi koje sam poznavao. Kako god, on je umro u zatvoru, osuđen za genocid i druge najteže zločine. Ljudi koje je poslao u smrt nisu dobili priliku da ostare. To je jedina činjenica o njegovoj smrti koja mi je važna. Sada preostaje teži dio posla: da ne dozvolimo da zajedno s njim umru istina, odgovornost i sjećanje. Mladićeva smrt je još jedan trenutak u kojem moramo odlučiti šta ćemo pamtiti i još važnije, šta nećemo dozvoliti da bude izbrisano.