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you enfolding all around for someone to remind you we're all honest to god we wish you happy holidays merry christmas everyone a very merry 1st season merry christmas and stacy happy holidays everyone happy holidays to you and say hey heidi a serious when he's facing. 25 years after the genocide in srebrenica a son whose son of a bitch is taking on the genocide denier 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 high and high.
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same thing was when my member of. it was very important that they were filed for the very 1st of 4 hours and when they were buried. the understood just as a as a closure ready ready ready ready ringback. i started walking and they were shooting again from everywhere. ringback ringback bullets were hitting what nearby a tree trunks. of course and both kids are going for thought they would do to me before they kill. if they would chop off my ears they called my. and i was
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afraid of being tortured and because i 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 here in minnie's won't serve soldiers gunned down hundreds of unarmed muslim refugees from srebrenica they were trying to reach the town of tuzla 100 kilometers away which was under bosnian control the wounded were. screaming for help and nobody could help them while hundreds were lying down here dead and while you could feel that stench that smell of the dead bodies all. of the hot july.
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i have survived 6 days 6 nights. i couldn't comprehend. i was both happy and sad happy that i say while sad that i my father my from brother my uncle were not there. her son is meeting romney's new cage at the spot where it all happened ramis lives nearby and is another survivor thread printed for many years ramez has spent his free time searching for relic support death march and once again he has found something her son has to decide whether the objects ramis has found are of interest for the memorial folk although this is part of a parachute and i think this jacket is from the humanitarian aid in srebrenica.
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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 ramis nuking which looked for the bodies of his father and 2 brothers he found many skeletons on his 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 performer. who carry out forensic investigations on site. here is a femur a joint capsule and the bone of a hand it's a cost of particular tool. i don't know if they're from the same body. the experts have to decide that. romney's found
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over $300.00 skeletons in this area around this hill. trying to help the families of killed. and he's still looking for the ball and he'll never stop till we find the last victim of genocide. like our son ramis no catch also survived the death march through the wounds. 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 record through means his story is documenting the stories of the survivors for the memorial and bring its own and many of you know i did the hardest thing was when i had to run away and leave my wife and son he was
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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. on him for the romneys fled from the bosnian serb 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 what we one of the wounded wanted me to kill him. i stood next to him and looked at him. i couldn't help anything 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 one. because i turned around and ran away you know what
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. 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 miners' 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. a son his son of age guides visitors through 1st 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 saunders her son her son of it was one of the
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refugees who sought shelter here murder and as nick expulsions by the bosnian serb army had been happening long before the genocide. and 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 shot raped and stopped them as was the tactic of the s.t.g. combat troops known as arkan's tigers their goal was to create an ethnically cleansed a greater serbia. on facebook you can find more videos with the 1st 25
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years after the genocide there are large gaps in the knowledge of what really happened is especially among young people both in serb army cameramen documented the invasion of srebrenica and the flight of the town's 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 that you fight this is the original truck or un truck from 85 they did not stop the killings of civilians they did not stop the rapes of women and girls they did not stop this they said the separations of men and boys from women and
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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 in failing to not just do to stop the servants 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.
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was. the. even before the u.n. withdrew many refugees suspected one path fate might be. $12000.00 man and use flat to the words a son her son of each seen here in the picture also joined the march. you know just such a despair and me we were in bruises in rags on the earth we were on this point the walking dead. i arrived here and i found i found my mother my anger brother and grandparents from the other side you know this man are barefoot like me ali one 3rd of men or boys who tried to walk that march survived and told turds were killed. over 8000 people
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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. money a chevy chase and has sent her son of age have known each other for a long time well mayor has been living in to his lawyer for just a few weeks he is studying law and is about to do his exams at the university of joe's law. son also wants to document 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
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record it's a foul as a child he knew about the atrocities and rapes 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 lived i wanted to starve myself to death and the girls so i didn't have to take it any more at all or that we should do and i thought of being. so far neither her son nor mommy i have received any psychological support as. i have it's not
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true in my opinion and in my experience this time it's healing scars and strong ones that dime is just you know more work for you really good after a while you accept. yourself and your bad experience. you weren't doing. good it's. still. writing his own songs and making music with friends helps move me out to banish painful memories. for several years together with other musicians and friends who know me and try to turn back into a lively and livable town. that was. 70000 people
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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 on the present. and. more may help 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 there and the morial center and hauled down into 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
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i mean this is my home but home like this you know empty home with all that hard things from the best you know it's just not there most fear i would like to create my own family so i must find some other solution somewhere else. for. this is the you to believe for a moment in the memorial center her 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
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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 we record every survivor if we can. go to some of. the more. i like the way you've done this how you can see the photos behind her. your forest and your loud name. was there for. her also. there you go during the you know imagine situation any father having to call or something. and it was in became a cinema business side. testified about that in the hague tribunal
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they were all killed a 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 am i bothering to cook everything is hard. i feel like i've been buried alive. that isn't at the hardest thing is when i'm making a salad who for why why. when he has time for his son visits of each of. these stupid coronavirus how are you the article it were musicians who can barely come on in. because she has no remaining mound relatives salina kansas financial support from the state governors. her son prepared her for her role as
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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 spine to losing her family or the. passive 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 the only 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 it didn't work it is. not far away in this building
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hundreds of men and boys were executed in july 995 after being captured. there is 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. no jet of 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 the i.r.s.
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are more and more aggressive and they know i bet the wolf and their judgments and genocide. very actively in the last i am is better hunker. the nobel prize winner why is notorious genocide in iraq that's a big scandal v. survivor is that we there is a very left that the fight against those who deny such crime and if we continue to do so and maybe in 10 years very very we will have a transfer of the evil here and all war criminals and because of that maybe in 10 years my daughters of iraq have to say apologize for the war for the sympathizers or the war criminal that's what i had survived. you know that this and they are going to recognize it just make simple. and i had.
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to change the current manner of shrapnel in it's also denies the genocide he ignores our request for an interview just as 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 the church still speaks of the acts of a few criminals. more man'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 make up governors 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
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to their friends we have nothing not that i miss her will said be stuck as if you could you imagine moving to tuzla or would you prefer to stay here. you must follow us women and every 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 and. it's hard for me to let you 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 when it works if. it's financially slatter mean of it she is dependent on support from her son most of the survivors of the genocide have still not received any states of followers. still more of you have nothing you know you never know what's know what they will bring to you she is also very sick you know and she have
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a hard depression you know because of all of this situation and in the last 5 years getting divorced are there but no one never come if she ask 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 education. was sure he's hoping to earn some money with music and to slow see has not yet given up his dream of being a musician oh this. was a shit. now i mean 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 know
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you don't know what's going to happen but i will give my best to. our son and his brother o'meara visit pam mother who lives near to snow. after the war the family moved away from the serbian part of bosnia into the multi ethnic neighboring region. it ended their 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 paul's camp. just. some son of age already had 3 years of exodus fear and expulsion behind her when
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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. supper on her son of a cheese 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 you know well i mean there is no in the admission to the genocide from the sort of. political elites and not to mention people because people are
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following the regimes so that it is shameful we know what happened. what should i say what he went through it's indescribable. but they tried to conceal it and how shit up that. ringback his 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
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the dead alive. the relatives of her son rummy's and so are all buried here but even 25 years after the massacre of srebrenica there are still families whose fathers and sons have not been found her son will fight on to make sure that their fate is not forgotten. because. you're a see endorsements have enough. of. the devil color gangster
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