Commemoration day, July 11, 1995/2007: departure from Hotel Hollywood, Ilidža, Sarajevo. Convoy of seven buses under police escort for the trip to Potočari cemetery, 6km north of Srebrenica, the site of Europe's worst genocidal massacre since the end of World War II. Voice overs punctuate the journey; sound bite information of forced marches and round ups recalls the intimacy of injury and violence against Bosniaks. Packed lunches for the travellers aspire to minimise the motion sickness for the widely rumoured short journey. But what about preparation for viewing the ongoing exhumation of a mass grave? Help is at hand. Miserable coldness and sludge provoke disappointment in the experience yet the appetite for viewing bones remains unsuppressed. Local remembrance - name calling of the dead in the cemetery and visiting the Srebrenica memorial room. What's in a road trip? Enduring, spectating, navigating, analyzing, complaining, a collective witness experience for the IAGS participants.
