Marchers Re-Enact Srebrenica Escape Before Mladic Trial -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre marched through the hills of eastern Bosnia on Sunday to re-enact their escape from Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic, demanding a swift conviction in his genocide trial which resumes on Monday.
The massacre, often described as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, involved the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys captured after Bosnian Serb forces overran the United Nations-protected enclave in July 1995.
About 15,000 men and boys managed to escape and fled through the woods, but many were easy prey for the Serb army who shelled and ambushed them or lured them to surrender disguised as U.N. soldiers.
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My Comment: Atrocities and mass murder was committed by all sides .... but the Srebrenica massacre will always be remembered as the worst atrocity since World War Two. Wikipedia has a good post on this event here.
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