Images are moving today of preparations for a mass burial in Srebrenica. There is also a march to commemorate the massacre.

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A Bosnian woman tidies up a newly dug grave in the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 8, 2010. This year's mass burial of the remains of the Srebrenica 1995 massacre victims, marking the 15th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica, is organised for more than 780 bodies that were collected from mass grave sites in Eastern Bosnia. In all nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the massacre, the only episode during the war sparked by the break-up of Yugoslavia that was ruled a genocide by two international courts.


I don't know anyone who denies we need to commemorate and seek justice for the Bosnian victims of what can be (and has been) shown to be war crimes in Yugoslavia's Civil War. However, I am continually upset at both Western media and political (national and international) failure to investigate, and seek equal justice for the victims of war crimes and genocide on the Yugoslavian, and Serbian side of the conflice. More than three quarters of a million ethnic Serbs were ethnically cleansed, and many thousands massacred in the ethnic Serbian portions of the former Croatian Yugoslavian republic, and other parts of Yugoslaia. Why should these victims be forgotten, just because they were on the "wrong side" of history?
I'm a U.S. Marine Infantry combat veteran, and I would have fought to my last breath to protect those innocent Muslim people from the rabid animals that murdered them. Those Muslims had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, but your kind's genocide against them undoubtably drove survivors to the extremist camp where they kill innocent Russians, Afghans and Pakistanis. The same ignorant hatred that led to their murders is what fuels radical Islamic violence. Next time you think about how much you hate them, look in the mirror, and think about how weak you and your kind are. After the world deals with al-Qaida and the violent Salafists, et al, you're next, pussy.
Hell Yes Steve! If you and a half dozen of you outfit had been there those P***er S***ing Serbs would have turned tail and ran off like the cowards they really were.
Semper Fidelis
I was part of SFOR 7 and escorted the women of srebenicia for the 5th anniversary of this massacre. We also drove through srebenicia and were appalled by the destruction and the savagry that occured there. One of the few times I have been afraid in my military career was driving through there. The serbs had no cause to be there, but wanted that place simply because of some "battle" that happened 600 years ago. All in all this war was just an excuse by the serbs to try and take over and grab more land for themselves that they didn't own or have claim to. This needs to be remembered and never forgotten, and the criminals that participated in it brought to justice.......
Madness is madness.
Are you kidding, "you are next pussy". After talking about how ignorant it is to hate you say something like this. Perhaps you should look at what you said and then contridict your entire view. I really don't get it, but then again you are a Marine.
What happend was a waste of life regardess of who or what they believed in. However, I find it hard to actually understand why it happened since we only get one side of the story. I have had relatives wipped out in programms in Russia and Germany and find this to be totally an act against humanity and should not be tollerated. Just because someone doesn't like Musilums isn't an excuse to kill them. Ignorance is no excuse, but I can't understand why Musilums say the Hollicost didn't happen?
What does being a Marine have anything to do with anything. I was in the Army and when I came home in 1969 I was spit on because I wore a uniform. While I didn't kill any women and children it didn't matter I was a servicemen who did my job and beleived in freedom.
This sure isn't the old photoblog.
I, will, um just sit here in my Pad and watch this one out. Ribbit Why can't we all get along......?