Anthony Haughey film captures chilling account of Srebrenica atrocity

Richard Fitzpatrick spoke to artist Anthony Haughey about his film on the infamous massacre

JULY marks the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the largest genocide in Europe since the Nazi’s Holocaust, in which more than 8,000 people, mostly men and teenage boys, were killed in the space of a few days.

Armagh-born artist Anthony Haughey has travelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina — having visited several times during 1998-2002 for a previous art installation — for his film, UNresolved. The title is a play on the United Nation’s inadequate peace-keeping role at Srebrenica. He draws on first-hand testimonies and gained exclusive access to the sites, factories and buildings in which the atrocities occurred to shoot the film. The result is chilling.