Marching in memory of Srebrenica victims
source: http://www.euronews.net/2011/07/08/marching-in-memory-of-srebrenica-victims/
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More than 6,000 people have begun a march to remember the victims of the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war.
They set off from Nezuk on the route used by thousands of Bosnian Muslim men women and children to flee the UN safe haven after it was overrun by Bosnian Serb troops in July 1995.
Those troops, led by the recently arrested Ratko Mladic, went on to slaughter 8,000 men and boys in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
The marchers will arrive in Srebrenica on Monday for a ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary.
Vehid Dedic escaped the killing by walking for seven days. He said: “We who survived in 1995 have to be grateful to these people, our friends and those from around the world who have come to pay their respects to the victims.”
More/video at the link
They set off from Nezuk on the route used by thousands of Bosnian Muslim men women and children to flee the UN safe haven after it was overrun by Bosnian Serb troops in July 1995.
Those troops, led by the recently arrested Ratko Mladic, went on to slaughter 8,000 men and boys in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
The marchers will arrive in Srebrenica on Monday for a ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary.
Vehid Dedic escaped the killing by walking for seven days. He said: “We who survived in 1995 have to be grateful to these people, our friends and those from around the world who have come to pay their respects to the victims.”
More/video at the link
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JanforGore
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And unfortunately like so much that gets lost in the shuffle of pop culture, viritually ignored.
- 11 months ago
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artemis6
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Wow , this is intense .
- 11 months ago
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JanforGore
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZyCxJWitEw&feature=related
Srebrenica. A word that's become synonymous with the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians. More than ten years on, most of the guilty remain at large. How could such a genocide occur? Why are the killers still free? Jean-René Ruez, the Hague Tribunal's Chief Investigator, has spent the last 13 years asking those questions. In this harrowing documentary, he pieces together the sequence of events. Includes rarely seen archive of the massacres." - 11 months ago
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