Bosnia Muslims: We will not Forget:
by TMO Staff Writer
Bosnian Serbs killed more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. Additionally, more than the Orthodox Christians expelled 20,000 civilians from the area in a genocide. The massacre, the worst in Europe since World War II, forced the world to seek a cease-fire to end three years of warfare on Bosnia’s territory. In the 7,000 plus graves, Christianity found itself buried.
Serbs were responsible for this genocide. But the blame also was on the United Nations and many Western nations. In 1993, the U.N. designated Srebrenica as a “safe area,” a blunder it recognized years later. In 1999, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan admitted, “Through error, misjudgment and an inability to recognize the scope of the evil confronting us, we failed to do our part to help save the people of Srebrenica from the [Bosnian] Serb campaign of mass murder.” In 2010, the world legally implicated Serbia in the massacre, and the Serbian National Assembly narrowly passed a resolution that apologized for having failed to prevent the killings. But an apology is not enough to bring back those killed. It’s a crime against humanity committed in the name of religious bigotry, and the world must not forget it.
On the anniversary of this genocide, we offer our deepest condolences to Bosnians and pray that the martyrs stay in our memory forever.
2020
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