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in the victims 25 years after the massacre in close on the. next on t.w. . to the last and it is of grave story dipsy couple they available both for over correction home the 4th time for the assault of the most recently that nickname works well at least the bottom of the valley that the last dragons in this world as you call it a hard to use detailed report are now. 25 years after the genocide in srebrenica a son whose son of 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
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discovered years later somebody called my mother. our father was i hired. the same thing was when my twin brother. it was very important that there were 5 it was very stressful for girls and they were buried. we understood just as a closure ready ready ready ready ready ready ringback. i started walking and they were shooting going from everywhere. 'd bullets were hitting not nearby tree trunks.
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of course i both kids. 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 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 these once. 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 palestinian control the wounded were. screaming for help and nobody could help them while hundreds were lying down here dead and while you goods to feel
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that stench that smell of the bodies. 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. has done is meeting rummy's new cage at the spot where it all happened. lives nearby and is another survivor of srebrenica for many years ramez or spend his free time searching for relics of the 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 record and it's a memorial folk although this is part of
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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 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 performances. who carry out forensic investigations on site. here is a femur a joint capsule and the bone of the hand. cost of treating people are cool.
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i don't know if they're from the same body the experts have to decide. ramis found over $300.00 skeletons in this area on this hill. trying to help the families of the killed. and he's still looking for the ball and he will never stop till we far in the last week to genocide. like our son ramis no courage in service survives 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 and sun records roomies this story is documented in the
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stories of the survivors for the memorial and spread printed. 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. ramis 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 and i knew. one of the wounded wanted me to kill him. i stood next to him and looked at him and. i couldn't help anything i didn't have the
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courage to put him out of his misery. i thought how should i live with the thought that he might have survived. i turned around and ran away. 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. her 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
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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 it was one of the 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 1802 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 anti hatred on their muslim neighbors they shan't raped and stop them as well as the tactic of the s.t.g.
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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 years after the genocide there are large gaps in the knowledge of what really happened is specially among young people both new. serb army cameramen documented the invasion of srebrenica and the flight of the town's muslim inhabitants in july 1905 general radko moderates 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 as combat troops they outnumbered un battalion withdrew abandoning thousands of refugees to the general and his soldiers. truck like that to fight this is the original truck or un truck from
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a key fight there 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 separation of men and boys from women and children during those the what they showed 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 go to stop the fulfillment 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 rather than carriage which.
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was. the. even before the u.n. withdrew many refugees suspected want their fate might be. $12000.00 man and use that to the words a son her son of each seen here in the picture also joins the march. you know just such a despair i mean we were in bruises in iraq's border into the earth we were on this point the walking dead. i arrived here and i found i found my mother my own your brother and grandparents from the mother's side you know this men are barefoot like me only one 3rd of
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men and boys who tried to walk that march survived and to 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. move on the achieve each and has sent her son of each have known each other for a long time well near has been living into his lair for just a few weeks he is studying goal and is about to do his exams at the university of those law son also wants to document more me
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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 representative found 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. join us what'll 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. 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 or. at one point and i stopped eating the little food that we had. i wanted to starve myself to down the girls so i didn't have to take it any more to it or the shadow and i thought of being. so far neither her son nor more may have
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received any psychological support as. it's not true in my opinion any in my experience this time it's healing scars and strong was their dime is just the normal one for you to go to after a while you accept you know you and your bad experience. you weren't going. to. be it's a. lot of. writing his own songs and making music with friends helps move me out to banish painful memories. because i am the. bad guy. for several years together with other musicians and friends more me and tried to
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turn from printed so back into a lively and livable town. that there 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. 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 no people are not coming and you have just there and the morial center and hall down in it is it's getting you know and it's going to be some kind
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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 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. the system to police. 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
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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 we record every survivor and if we can. fill in some of. the more. 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 to forrest and yell out their son's name. there.
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you know imagine situation any father having to call is something that. became a thing in the business side. 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. the hardest thing is when i'm making a salad who for wine my bothering to cook everything is hard. i feel like i've been buried alive. a virus how are you going to put music with me and they only come on in. because she has no remaining male relatives when he has time her son visits
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a man of each 100 this stupid corona sillier gets financial support from the state overnight. 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 despite losing her family with the. characters 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 that
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. 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 in the market as there is. not far away in this building 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 d.h. also survived one of the mass shootings of hundreds of prisoners together with her
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son he is campaigning against the genocide deniers who claim that no mass murder took place in srebrenica in spite of established facts together the 2 men have published a report about genocide denial. the i.r.s. are more and more aggressive and denied that the war and that judgment and genocide . very actively in the last guy was better. the normal prizewinner or is notorious genocide in iraq that's a big scandal being survivors that we believe there is a mask that the fight against those who deny such crime and if we continue to do so and maybe in 10 years very very we'll have a triumph of the evil here and all war criminals and because of that maybe in 10
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years my daughters of iraq have to say apologize to the board of the sympathizers or the war criminal this is what i had survived. you know that the mayor is going to recognize he is traveling simple. and. not include to change the current manner of schreiber 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 me as 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
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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 a city. that doesn't miss you could you imagine moving to tuzla or would you prefer to stay here. you must all of us remember nobody 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. yes i mean it's hard for me to let loose but i know it's basic 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 slat i mean of it she is dependent on support from her son most of the
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survivors of the genocide have still not received any states of falling out. still more of you have nothing you know you never know what's know they will bring to you she's also very sick you know and she have depression you know because of all of this situation and in last 5 years getting forster there but no one would never come if she asked for some help or something and they told her you have son you know and he's responsible for you all and he should take care about you. more man has to take care of his mother and also finance his education. he's hoping to earn some money with music interisland c. has not yet given up his dream of being a musician. was huge. you
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know i mean he does what is some kind of new beginning or you would 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 o'meara visit their 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
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other muslim villages in the serbian part of paul's now. just a. suburb 100 son of age already had 3 years of exodus fear and expulsion behind her when she lost her husband and won a further 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. scepter she. suffered 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
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his work. some people come and day out of blue the day they ask questions about forgiveness how can you talk about forgiveness when when there is genocide you know i mean. there is no an admission to the genocide from sort of political elites 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 tried to conceal it and how shit up that. his son regularly visits the cemetery for the mounted muslim victims of the genocide it is next to the memorial.
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so they're here. my father and my 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 son rummy's and celine are all buried here but even 25 years after the massacre of treasure in its search there are still no 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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