experiencing a changing environment or the ice disappears earlier on and it keeps retreating ha shirish the last years have been smelting rushing makes it hard but they should pay our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights life with the arctic circle starts december 21st on t.w. . 25 years after the genocide in srebrenica a son whose son of a bitch is taking on the genocide denial he works in the memorial center which commemorates the mass murder in the serbian part of bosnia although he survived his father and his twin brother were both killed their remains only discovered years

later somebody called my mother. our father was alive and. the same thing was when my twin brother. because very important they were filed for the very 1st of 4 words and they were buried. really understood just as a closure ready ready ringback ringback ready ringback ringback. i started walking and they were shooting going from everywhere. ringback bullets were hitting one

nearby tree trunks. and of course i got scared and. thought they would do to me before they kill me if they would chop off my ears they called my. and i was afraid of being tortured and because i've heard the stories of of torture . i was thinking if i would ever see my family again and i was 19 and i could not believe that my life was ending in 1995 he needs wants bosnian serb soldiers gunned down hundreds of unarmed muslim refugees from stripper knutson they were trying to reach the town of tuzla 100 kilometers away which was under palestinian control the wounded were. screaming for help and nobody could help them while hundreds were lying down here dead and while

you could see the feel that stench the smell of dead bodies all. of the hot july. i have survived 6 days 6 nights. i couldn't comprehend. i was both happy and sad happy that i survived but that i my father my from brother my uncle were not there. our son is meeting rummy's new kids at the spot where it all happened ramis lives nearby and is another survivor of srebrenica for many years ramez has spent his free time searching for reading separate death march and once again he has found something. her son has to decide whether the objects ramis has found are of interest for this represented certain a moral focal though this is part of

a parachute and i think this jacket is from the humanitarian aid in srebrenica. this is the area where one of the worst attacks happened and where the most people were killed in one attack around a 1000 people were killed here. for years romney's new catch looked for the bodies of his father and 2 brothers he found many skeletons on to search later the remains of his family were found in a mass grave but he continued his search he often finds body found still today he goes on to inform the pathologists into those who carry out forensic investigations on site. here is a femur a joint capsule and the bone of a hand it's close to fairly critical or cool. i don't know if they're from the

same body. the experts have to decide on the. doctors. ramis found over $300.00 pounds in this area around this hill. trying to help the families of the killed and he's still looking horrible and he will never stop till we in the last week to genocide. like our son ramis know cage inside survived a death march through the woods. 18 years ago he returned to his house which was completely destroyed in the war and rebuilt it. he found 4 more dead bodies among the ruins. today his son's family lives in the house they make a living from farming his son rick own through me says story is documenting the

stories of the survivors for the memorial instructor and it's a in many of. the hardest thing was when i had to run away and leave my wife and son he was just 7 years old he flung his arms around my neck and said papa don't leave me the serbian soldiers will kill me that broke my heart. i pushed him off and asked my wife to hold him and take him away. without looking back i left. the rummies fled from the bones and insert prosecutors who were hunting down all my own refugees he witnessed a further massacre with almost 1000 men killed did you see it yes yes i saw it with my own eyes i mean. one of the wounded wanted me to kill him. when i stood next to him and looked at him and i couldn't help anything was i didn't have

the courage to put him out of his misery. i thought how should i live with the thought that he might have survived. because i turned around and ran away you know was. his wife and his son also survived. instructor and it's the horrors of the war are still visible today what was once a thriving miner's town in the serbian part of bosnia has become synonymous with mass murder. the memorial to the victims of the genocide is a few kilometers away it was founded in 2001 and is funded by private and state donations. her son his son of age guides visitors through those represented so memorial center where he has worked for many years. during the war these buildings

were part of the un safe area tens of thousands of bosnian muslims fled into the safe area guarded by dutch blue helmets saunters her son her son of each was one of the refugees who sought shelter here murder and ethnic expulsions by the bosnian serb army had been happening long before the genocide. this is where they were. at the beginning of april 1902 this is them killing a family in the street. and you know still kicking them after shooting them where you see the desperate place of. willing to fail i. after the breakup of yugoslavia bosnian serb nationalists waged a war of utter hatred on their muslim neighbors they shan't raped and stop them as well as the tactic of the s.t.g.

combat troops known as arkan's tigers their goal was to create an ethnically cleanse to greater serbia. on facebook you can find more videos with the 1st 25 years after the genocide there are large gaps in the knowledge of what really happened is specially among young people both in serb army cameramen documented the invasion of srebrenica and the flight of the towns muslim inhabitants in july 1905 general radko muggeridge later convicted as a war criminal celebrated his victory a few kilometers away the un safe area was ill equipped for the arrival of the refugees threatened by moderates his combat troops the outnumbered un battalion withdrew abandoning. thousands of refugees to the general and his soldiers. truck like rectified this is the original truck or u.n.

truck from a q 5 they did not stop the killings of civilians they did not stop the rapes of women and girls they did not stop the they said the separations of men and boys from women and children during those deportations they were just observing just looking on while the crimes were being happening here. speaks volumes about their the responsibility of the international community and in failing to not just do to stop the fulfillments of but also to save lives. the bosnian serb aggressors separated women and their children from all male refugees over the age of 15. they transported the young men to hidden places where they were systematically murdered . their own camera teams filmed the executions which were later denied by many who were politically responsible such as rad of encourage each.

was. the. even before the u.n. withdrew many refugees suspected want their fate might be. $12000.00 man and use fled to the words a son her son of each seen here in the picture also joins the march. just such a disparate i mean we were in bruises in iraq's border. we were on this point the walking dead. i arrived here and i found i found my mother and my older brother and grandparents from the mother's side you know these men are barefoot like me only one 3rd of

men are boys who tried to walk that march survived and told turds were killed. over 8000 people died in the biggest mass murder since the 2nd world war. a 2 hour drive away from srebrenica is a bustling multi-ethnic town of over 100000 inhabitants in eastern bosnia. for her. normally achieve each and has sent her son of age have known each other for a long time well mia has been living in terms of law for just a few weeks he is studying goal and is about to do his exams at the university of tows law person also wants to document more me

a story for the memorial. he started conducting interviews a year ago and has already done over $100.00. more mia was 11 years old when his record it's a foul as a child he knew about the atrocities in drag by the bosnian serb soldiers he fled to the un safe area with his mother. then as what will be a leg up we were there in the buildings for about $3.00 to $4.00 days a month there was no food no water nothing and nobody knew what would happen next and everybody was really frightened. i literally felt the presence of a dark power. religious people would say the devil for satan. at one point i stopped eating the little food that we had. i wanted to starve myself to down so i didn't have to take it any more do it or the one of the people.

so far neither has nor more may have received any psychological support. it's not true in my opinion and in my experience of the time it's healing scars and strong their time is just you know more work for you in their day that after a while you accept you know you're not and you're a bad experience. you weren't doing. good it's. right in his own songs and making music with friends helps move me out to banish painful memories. i am half. for several years together with other musicians and friends more man trying to turn back into

a lively and livable town. that was. 70000 people lived in srebrenica before the war the town was also a tourist attraction now it only has around 10000 inhabitants. even today the impact of the war is omnipresent. mommy helped to develop this youth center over 12 years for which he organized funding from holland and germany. the aim was for music to provide reconciliation and peace. but the project faint. now down it's empty you know people are not coming and you have just their memorial center and hauled down it is it's getting you know and it's going to be some kind

of big grave or something like that you know one big black hole what they call i mean this is my home but home like this you know empty home with all that hard things from the past you know it's just not there much fear i would like to create my own family so i must find some other solution somewhere else. or. this is the you tube anything more than that in the memorial center our son and his colleague are editing a video about the locations of the massacres they're hoping to receive private donations for the documentary project. many videos are available on you tube they are also putting the interviews with the

survivors online. we need to film as many stories as possible to create a database of personal stories for the future because if the stories are not to the core that. people die the stories will die with them and this is why it is very important that he required every survivor if he can. for most. of them. i like the way you've done this how you can see the photos behind her. her husband was captured and made by the bulls in sort of marmion to call their son's name. forest and yell out their son's name.

was flo her also. you know imagine situation any father having to call a son to death and it became a synonym of the genocide. testified about that in the hague tribunal. they were all killed she lost her husband and 2 sons now she lives alone on her own in her house and she has been living alone for 25 years that's the hardest thing is when i'm making a salad. for why why am i bothering to cook. everything is hard. i feel like i've been buried alive. when he has time for his son visits of each $100.00 this stupid coronavirus how are you going to put music and really come on in.

because she has no remaining male relatives so leah gets financial support from the state government as. her son prepared her for her role as a key witness in the war crimes tribunal in the hague she trying to look radko marriage in the eye while making her statement but he did not say a word to her she is firmly convinced that the war criminals will have to pay for their crimes in the next wound she's often asked why she returned to her house after the war the spite of losing her family the. parents of i decided to return to the place where i lived with my children and brought them up i felt stronger for it i am stronger. and i've never regretted my return i'm proud of

it. you know it must be hard for you sometimes when everything reminds you of. but it will only be as good of course it's hard everything is hard but we think that they'll come back one day but i am strong enough to live with it i'm not the only mother who lost everything america is. not far away in this building hundreds of men and boys were executed in july 995 after being captured near. there's not even a memorial plaque to mark the crime. just a few minutes away from the scene of this atrocity is the hero's memorial to the bosnian serb soldiers. and just a few more kilometers away there is a monumental memorial and a poster paying homage to the war criminal general ratko manage. neji had d.h. also survived one of the mass shootings of hundreds of prisoners together with her

son he is campaigning against the genocide deniers who claim that no mass murder took place in trouble in spite of established facts together the 2 men have published a report about genocide denial and iris are more and more aggressive and deny the truth and that judgement and genocide a. very actively in the last guy is better hunker. the normal prize winner for his notorious genocide in iraq that's a big scandal v. survivor is there 3 weeks there was a very last that the fight against those who denies such crimes and if we continue to do so and maybe in 10 years we've we will have a triumph of the evil here and war criminals and because of that maybe in 10 years

my daughters of iraq have to see apologize to the board of the sympathizers or the war criminal that's what i had survived. you know that the mayor is going to recognize him and it just makes him feel good and i had. to change the current manner of trapper nitsa also denies the genocide he ignores our request for an interview just hours before there are processions in the town glorifying the war criminals also on the larger political stage many do not use the term genocide serbia's president still speaks of the acts of a few criminals. more mare's mother slot amin of h. has stayed in srebrenica in spite of the genocide deniers she is a homemaker she has found no job in srebrenica many of her relatives have moved

away until recently more male also lived with her in her house now he comes to visit regularly a couple nic others around us and how am i. not where. i don't know if i'm alive or dead i don't send them here though i have nobody to talk to their friends we have nothing not that i miss have all said be stuck out to me could you imagine moving to tuzla or would you prefer to stay here. you must follow us ramadan every day and i visit here every now and then i don't want to be in your way you have to live your life without me brother in here. it's hard for me to let loose but i know it's better for him he has friends he goes to university his studies he's looking for a better life that fulfills me and makes it easy and it works if it's financially smart a mean of h.

is dependant on support from her son most of the survivors of the genocide have still not received any states of fallout. still more of you have nothing you know you never know what's know what day will bring to you she's also very sick you know and she have a hard depression you know because of all of this situation and in the last 5 years getting forster there but no one never come if she asks for some help or something they told her you have son you know and he's responsible for you all and he should they care about you. more man has to take care of his mother and also finance his own education. he's hoping to earn some money with music into islam still has not yet given up his dream of being a musician. but this. was a shit. you know i mean he does what is some kind of new beginning or

new transit for somewhere else so you know it's always you have feeling strange feeling when you are done with something and when something is finished it and you need to start something new but it's also you know it can be exciting and you're don't know what's going to happen but i will give my best. to. our son and his brother oh mia visit pam mother who lives near to us now. after the war the family moved away from the serbian part of bosnia into the multi ethnic neighboring region. it ended the family's long story of displacement in 1992 the serbian army had already destroyed their village along with hundreds of

other muslim villages in the serbian part of past. summer her son of age already had 3 years of exodus fear and expulsion behind her when she lost her husband and one of her 3 sons in 1905. the house we had to live and sleep in the woods we lived in huts or holes in the ground because they destroyed all the houses in our village. from serbia they shot at us with grenades and tanks. set her she. suffered her son of ages pound of her sons who are fighting for justice today omeo works as a t.v. journalist and is doing research on war criminals he is not allowed to talk about

his work. some people come in day out of the blue the day they ask questions about forgiveness how can you talk about forgiveness when when there is a genocide denial i mean. there is no an admission to the genocide from the sort of . political elites and not to mention people because people are following the regimes said that it is shameful we know what happened. what should i say what he went through it's indescribable. but they try to conceal it and how shit up. her son regularly visits the cemetery for the murdered muslim victims of the genocide it is next to the memorial.

so they're here. my father and my finn brother. his son's work helps him to share his grief with others and to keep the memory of the dead alive. the relatives of house on rummy's. are all buried here but even 25 years after the massacre at srebrenica there are still families whose fathers and sons have not been found her son will fight on to make sure that their fact is not forgotten.

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