10 Years Ago - Srebrenica Massacre

[Forester]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:10am

Let us remember the victims of this outrage. Up to 8,000 men and boys were killed during the massacre.

[amasis]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:17am

And a little blurb for those who were maybe, I don't know, too young when it happened...
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"Srebrenica, Bosnia, the world's first United Nations Safe Area, was the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War II. In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army staged a brutal takeover of the small, intimate spa town and its surrounding region. Over a period of five days, the Bosnian Serb soldiers separated Muslim families and systematically murdered over 7,000 men and boys in fields, schools, and warehouses."

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/cryfromthegrave/

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/675945.stm

[Forester]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:21am

It was my sophmore year in college when it happen. It barely registered on the world's conscious. Same thing happen in Rwanda, Sudan, DRC, etc, etc, etc. We haven't learned anything.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 3:46pm

Serbia's Memories

the Baltic issue goes far beyond this one incident. ......this was a horrible massacre,,,,,,the article below makes some excellent points about this part of the world.

I used to be totally anti-Serbian, until a Serbian friend from my high school days made me really look at that part of the world.......it is a very complex mess, with complex issues

Remember it was this part of the world that ignited the fire that became World War 1, ie the assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife

http://members.tripod.com/~sarant_2/ks21serbia.html

Updated On: 7/11/05 at 03:46 PM

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:08pm

it's hard enough for me to understand 40 killed in london ... acts such as THIS are just uncomprehendable to me.