Sunday, July 11, 2010

Remembering The Massacre At Srebrenica



Thousands Mourn Srebrenica Massacre Victims, Criticize UN -- Voice of America

Survivors have expressed frustration over the United Nation's perceived failure to prevent the killing of more than 8,000 Muslims by Serb forces in July, 1995.

Tens of thousands of people have commemorated the 15th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Survivors have expressed frustration over the United Nation's perceived failure to prevent the killing of more than 8,000 Muslims by Serb forces in July, 1995.

In the summer heat, huge crowds of mourning Muslims attended the biggest funeral near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

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More News On The Massacre At Srebrenica

775 coffins: Bosnia marks 1995 Srebrenica massacre -- AP
50,000 people gather to commemorate victims of Srebrenica massacre -- Xinhuanet
Obama urges Mladic capture on Srebrenica anniversary -- AFP
Barack Obama demands justice 15 years after Srebrenica -- BBC
775 Srebrenica victims buried to mark 15th anniversary -- The Telegraph
Bosnia marks Srebrenica massacre -- Al Jazeera
Srebrenica massacre memorial to point finger at UN -- AP
Details emerge from Mladic's secret wartime diary -- AP

My Comment: When the massacre at Srebrenica was occurring, I was vacationing on the Greek islands in the Ionian Sea only a few hundred kilometers away. Life is sometimes very surreal .... and that was one experience which always reminds me on how life can be incredibly unfair to many others.

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