Remembering Srebrenica

Please read this letter from the Moderator, Rev Dr Martin Fair, about the 25th anniversary this month of the appalling genocide in Srebrenica:

Srebrenica Scotland is a charity chaired by the Very Rev Dr Lorna Hood, former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

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