Today marks 22 years since the Srebrenica genocide, the worst crime on European soil since the Holocaust. Lest we forget.

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ButtMayBee on July 11st, 2017 at 07:21 UTC »

Just like ISIS, sometimes even worse. Just a couple testimonials:

Testimony of Ramiza Gurdić:

I saw how a young boy of about ten was killed by Serbs in Dutch uniform. This happened in front of my own eyes. The mother sat on the ground and her young son sat beside her. The young boy was placed on his mother's lap. The young boy was killed. His head was cut off. The body remained on the lap of the mother. The Serbian soldier placed the head of the young boy on his knife and showed it to everyone. … I saw how a pregnant woman was slaughtered. There were Serbs who stabbed her in the stomach, cut her open and took two small children out of her stomach and then beat them to death on the ground. I saw this with my own eyes.[67]

Testimony of Kada Hotić:

There was a young woman with a baby on the way to the bus. The baby cried and a Serbian soldier told her that she had to make sure that the baby was quiet. Then the soldier took the child from the mother and cut its throat. I do not know whether Dutchbat soldiers saw that. … There was a sort of fence on the left-hand side of the road to Potocari. I heard then a young woman screaming very close by (4 or 5 meters away). I then heard another woman beg: "Leave her, she is only nine years old." The screaming suddenly stopped. I was so in shock that I could scarcely move. … The rumour later quickly circulated that a nine year old girl had been raped.[68]

That night, a DutchBat medical orderly came across two Serb soldiers raping a young woman:

"[W]e saw two Serb soldiers, one of them was standing guard and the other one was lying on the girl, with his pants off. And we saw a girl lying on the ground, on some kind of mattress. There was blood on the mattress, even she was covered with blood. She had bruises on her legs. There was even blood coming down her legs. She was in total shock. She went totally crazy."

Bosnian Muslim refugees nearby could see the rape, but could do nothing about it because of Serb soldiers standing nearby. Other people heard women screaming, or saw women being dragged away. Several individuals were so terrified that they committed suicide by hanging themselves. Throughout the night and early the next morning, stories about the rapes and killings spread through the crowd and the terror in the camp escalated.

Screams, gunshots and other frightening noises were audible throughout the night and no one could sleep. Soldiers were picking people out of the crowd and taking them away: some returned; others did not. Witness T recounted how three brothers—one merely a child and the others in their teens—were taken out in the night. When the boys' mother went looking for them, she found them with their throats slit.[69]

More testimonials here http://www.legal-tools.org/doc/ca1e99/pdf/

edit: at the same time a support group for the general Mladic was cancelled today, not because it is illegal or immoral but because most of the police force is securing the Srebrenica memorial. More than a thousands Serbs were planning to attend the support for Mladic with the slogan "Podrška generalu Ratku Mladiću - stop lažima o Srebrenici" (Support for general Ratko Mladic - stop spreading lies about Srebrenica)

https://www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/zabranjen-za-sutra-najavljeni-skup-podrske-ratku-mladicu-u-banjoj-luci/170710109

We will never have peace until this sick ideology is not completely destroyed just like Nazism was or ISIS (the latter is in process of getting it's butt kicked).

Serbian ideology was left alive. One example is the current president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic. Here he is literally as the genocide was happening in Srebrenica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqv9CJbd3U

Translation:

You kill 1 serb (he was reffering to the western forces) and we will kill hundreds of Muslims, and we shall see whether the international community dares or anyone else to strike on the serbian forces.

bobbygirlyman on July 11st, 2017 at 10:04 UTC »

Why the hell do people react to this with 'but there were other crimes after WW2 that were equally bad...'? Jesus, it isn't about who was the worst guy or which group suffered the most. 22 years ago people were slaughtered in Europe and nobody did shit for 3 fucking years.

If the crimes themselves weren't hidious enough, simply let that fact settle in your mind. After all that Europe has seen, after all the 'never again' talk, they simply watched. And after they did intervene after 3 long years? The Serbs tried to pull the same shit again in 1999. But at least this time the US (not Europe itself) reacted.

There is a lesson to be learned but instead you people start arguing who suffered the most for what reason. Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen wie ich kotzen möchte!

montarion on July 11st, 2017 at 10:42 UTC »

So..why did I not learn about this in school? It's Europe dammit, I'm in Europe!