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there on. the bed there is a lot that can be done i am. i am. make up your own mind. the back double whammy. 25 years after the genocide instructor and it's not our son whose son of each 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
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somebody called my mother was i and. the same thing was when my twin brother. it was very important that they were filed. for the very 1st of all and when they were buried. we understood this was a closure ready ringback ringback ready ready ringback ready ringback. i started walking and they were shooting and from everywhere. 'd 'd bullets were hitting me if they would chop off my not nearby tree trunks. of course i got scared and. thought
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they would do to me before they killed me of torture. i was thinking if i would ever see my family again and i was 90. they called my. and i was afraid of being tortured and because i've heard the stories. and i could not believe that my life was ending in 1995 here in knees once. soldiers gunned down hundreds of unarmed muslim refugees from stripper and 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 on all. of the hot
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july. i have survived 6 days 6 nights. i couldn't comprehend. i was both happy and sad happy that i survived but sad that i my father my from brother my uncle were not there. and son is meeting romney's new kids at response where it all happened. lives nearby and is another survivor. for many years ramez or spent his free time searching for a relic 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 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 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 performer. who carry out forensic investigations on site. here is a femur a joint capsule and the bone of a hand. to fairly crude oil. i don't know if they're from the same body. the experts have to decide that.
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romney's found over 300 skeletons in this area on this hill trying to help the families of the killed and he's still looking for them and he will never stop till we are in the last week to genocide. like our son ramiz no catch him some 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 me he says story is documented in the stories of the survivors for the memorial and spread printed. in many of. the
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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 friend 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 i saw it with my own eyes. 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 courage to put him out of his misery. i thought how should i live with the thought
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that he might have survived one more. i turned around and ran away. his wife and his son also survived. instructor in it sir 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 her son of it guides visitors through 1st represents a memorial center where he has worked for many years. during the war these buildings were part of the u.n. safe area tens of thousands of bosnian muslims fled into the safe area guarded by
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dutch blue helmets saunders her son her son of each was one of the refugees who sought shelter here. murder and as sneaky expulsions by the bosnian serb army had been happening long before the genocide. and this is where they were. in the beginning of april may be made to do this is then killing a family in the street. and you know still kicking them after shooting them where you see the desperate place of. really 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. combat troops known as arkan's tigers their goal was to create an ethnically
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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 especially among young people both in. army cameramen documented the invasion of srebrenica and the flight of the town's muslim inhabitants in july 1905 general radko mother church 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 and large as combat troops the outnumbered un battalion withdrew abandoning thousands of refugees to the general and his soldiers. truck thank 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
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did not stop the this at the separations of men and boys from women and children during those the what they should as they were just observing just looking on while the crimes for the thing happened here it speaks volumes about the the responsibility of the international community here 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 man 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 courage each.
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was. the. even before the u.n. withdrew many refugees suspected one path fate might be. 12000 men and use fled to the words assad her son of rich seen here in the picture also joined the march. such as this pyramid we were in bruises in iraq's border. and we were of 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 this man are barefoot like me only one 3rd of men and boys who tried to walk that march survived and to turds were killed over
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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. more on the achieve each and has time for son of age have known each other for a long time were mere has been living into his love for just a few weeks he is studying law and is about to do his exams at the university of tows law doesn't also wants to document me a story for the memorial. he started conducting interviews
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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. join us not to be a leg up we were there in the buildings for about $3.00 to $4.00 days a month and 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 or. at one point i stopped eating the little food that we had lived i wanted to starve myself to down the girls so i didn't have to take it anymore the door a door the door and it appeared. so far neither her son nor more may have received any psychological support as.
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it's not true in my opinion and in my experience this time it's feeling scars and strong was that dime is just you know more work for you in the way that after a while you accept. yourself and your bad experience. you weren't too we. would see. the. writing his own songs and making music with friends helps move me out to banish painful memories. to our caravan. for several years together with other musicians and friends more man trying to turn trevor newton 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 omnipresent. more man 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 failed. now down it's empty you know people are not coming and you have just there no morial 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
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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 their utmost fear i would like to create my own family so i must find some other solution somewhere else. for. the system to anything. 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 to be required every survivor and if we can let go of some of. the more. i like the way you've done this how you can see the photos behind her. husband was captured and made by the bulls in sort of marmion to call their son's name. forest and yell loud sounds name 6. also. you know
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imagine situation any father having to call a something that. became a synonym of the genocide. justify the bone 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 who 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 man of each $100.00 is stupid coronavirus how are you going to put music with me and they only come on in.
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because she has no remaining male relatives selina gets financial support from the state over ness. her son prepared her for her role as a key witness in the war crimes tribunal in the hague she tried 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.
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but it will only be as quick 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 really the mechanism 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 these are trustworthy is the hero's memorial to the bosnian serb soldiers. and just a few more kilometers away there is a monumental more moral and a poster paying homage to the war criminal general ratko matter which. no judge of 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 deny their truth and that judgment genocide is. very actively in the last guy is better hunker. normal prizewinner point is notorious genocide and i that's a big scandal the survivors the 3 because there was a lot of ask that the fight against those who denies such crime and if we continue to do so and maybe in 10 years very very we will have a triumph of the evil here and all war criminals and because of that maybe in 10 years my daughters would be able to have a say apologize to the board of the sympathizers or the war criminal was what i had
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survived. you know that this and they are going to recognize it just makes him. on the path. 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 the church 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 a house now he comes to visit regularly
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a couple nicola started also how am i. not where. i don't know if i'm alive or dead. and. i have nobody to talk to their friends we have nothing not that i miss have us and be stuck as if you 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. it's hard for me to let loose but i know it's better for him he has friends he goes to university he 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 survivors of
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the genocide have still not received any states of followers. still more of you have nothing you know you never know what you know what they will bring to you and she's also very sick you know and she have a hard depression you know because of all of this iteration and in the last 5 years getting vorster there but no one 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 they care about you. more man has to take care of his mother and also finance his own education. i'm. sure he's hoping to earn some money with music into islam still has not yet given up his dream of being a musician you know this. was a shit. you know i mean is some kind of you all beginning or you
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would translate 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 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 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 paul's now. just.
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a. suburb 100 son of age already had 3 years of exodus fear and expulsion behind her when she lost her husband and one of our 3 sons in 1905. so we have often 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. which set her she. suffered her son of age is proud 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
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forgiveness how can you talk about forgiveness when when there is a genocide you know well i mean. there is no an admission to the genocide from the 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 try to conceal it and how shit up that talk. to. 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.
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his sons one helps him to share his grief with others and to keep the memory of the dead alive. the relatives of how simon grammys i'm sorry are all buried here but even 25 years after the massacre at srebrenica there is still no families whose fathers and sons have not been found her son will fight on to make sure that their fate is not forgotten.
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