REFUGEE Hasan Hasanocic’s flight from attackers was among the experiences learned by supporters of Minehead Amnesty’s event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. 

Stories of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur were also there for visitors to the Quaker Meeting House to read and respond to, by writing a message on a postcard.  

When under attack by Bosnia Serbs, Hasan was forced to move with his family to the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica together with tens of thousands of mainly Muslim refugees. 

On July 11, 1995 the Serbs slaughtered 8000 unarmed men and boys, the worst massacre in Europe since the Holocaust. 

Hasan became separated from his father and 19-year-old twin brother who were among those killed. He escaped and survived while thousands more perished and he now works at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, telling his story to visitors from all over the world – his duty to those who were murdered.