Today at the Memorial Center in Potocari will be held collective funeral for the 127 victims of the Srebrenica genocide.
“”We remember this terrible crime because we dare not forget, because we must pay tribute to the innocent lives, many of them children, snuffed out in what must be called genocidal madness.”,” said the former president of USA, Bill Clinton.
“I’m sorry that it took so long for us to unite in order to stop acts of violence. But I’m glad that peace is held in the period after the war. In my name, and the name of my country, I want to say that I love Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that I never want to see another killing field like this,” stated Clinton.
“More than 7,000 men and boys were slaughtered simply for being Muslim — part of the approximately 100,000 who would be killed during the war, the majority of them Muslim. It took the slaughter of thousands and thousands of people — a genocide in the heart of Europe — to get the American and European governments to be serious about putting an ultimatum to Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader who used the Bosnian Serbs as his lethal instruments. For me, the war and what I witnessed changed everything. I saw the very best and worst of humanity. The worst was the Bosnian Serbs, armed and backed by Milosevic, slaughtering civilians — that meant women, little kids, old men,” said Christiane Amanpour, reporter for CNN.
“The 11th of July is a reminder of brutality of human kind. Today, we pay tribute to the victims of a terrible crime -– the worst on European soil since the Second World War. Throughout the world, this date is marked as a grim reminder of man’s inhumanity to man. As they grieve, so we grieve. As they cry out for truth and justice, so must we continue the fight, no matter how long it takes, to secure a full and proper reckoning,” said Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
“Our first duty is to uncover, and confront, the full truth about what happened. For us who serve the United Nations, that truth is a hard one to face. We can say — and it is true — that great nations failed to respond adequately. We can say — and it is also true — that there should have been stronger military forces in place, and a stronger will to use them. As I wrote in my report in 1999, we made serious errors of judgment, rooted in a philosophy of impartiality and non-violence which, however admirable, was unsuited to the conflict in Bosnia. That is why, as I also wrote, “the tragedy of Srebrenica will haunt our history forever,” stated Annan.
“The world was waiting until the massacre in Srebrenica to get effective in BiH. It took a number of stories about the shooting of men and boys in the camps, the women and girls raped by soldiers, the babies killed only because they have not stopped crying. But then we saw how decisive action can make a great difference,” said Hillary Clinton.
(Source: faktor.ba/un.org/cnn.com/huffingtonpost.com)
