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pampango

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Thu Jul 11, 2013, 06:18 AM Jul 2013

Tens of thousands attend burial of 409 victims of Srebrenica massacre

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Tens of thousands have gathered in Bosnia to rebury 409 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on the 18th anniversary of the worst slaughter on European soil since the Nazi era.

Among the victims are 43 teenage boys and a baby that was born during the ordeal. They are being laid to rest at a special cemetery near Srebrenica where victims are buried as their remains are gradually found in mass graves. As of Thursday, there were 6,066 with a further 2,306 are still missing.

In July 1995, Serb forces overran the U.N.-protected Muslim town in eastern Bosnia and executed more than 8,000 men and boys within days. U.N. troops on the ground did nothing to stop them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/tens-of-thousands-attend-burial-of-409-victims-of-srebrenica-massacre/2013/07/11/58dcd010-ea0c-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_story.html

A very sad time in Europe's history of ethnic and religious atrocities. One hopes that those days are behind them.

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Tens of thousands attend burial of 409 victims of Srebrenica massacre (Original Post) pampango Jul 2013 OP
Now they do it in Muslim countries malaise Jul 2013 #1
"They" who? Europeans? Assad? The Egyptian military? All of the above? n/t pampango Jul 2013 #2
All of the above malaise Jul 2013 #3
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