Sunday 11 July marked the 15th Anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst mass murder in Europe since World War II when Bosnian Serbs militias and Serbian paramilitaries overran the United Nations designated "safe areas" for refugees from the Bosnian War. The militias separated the men from the women and transported them away where they were stripped and deliberately and methodically killed solely on the basis of their identity. The dead were first buried in mass graves and later dispersed in smaller graves in a bid to cover up the evidence of of the massacre. Over the years, forensic experts have exhumed the remains of over 4500 victims in order to identify them and the final 775 bodies were buried in conjunction with the Anniversary.
The burial and anniversary was well attended by over 50,000 people, including leaders from various countries. US President Obama in his statement that was read by the Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, described the massacre as "a stain on our collective consciousness". After 15 years, we now ponder how could the world turned their back and allowed such atrocities to take place before our very eyes.
While we ponder and regretting for having not acted earlier to prevent the massacre tin Srebrenica that happened 15 years ago, let us also lend our human thoughts to the people of Palestine. Are we going to just fold our hands and continues to allow Israel to do whatever they want on the people of Palestine. Are we so powerless to act? Will we be a silent partner to the Israel's actions in cleansing out the Palestinian population?
Only history will tell and perhaps the world will have a similar anniversary to mark the final exodus of the Palestinian people from their lands in the not so near future.
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