Srebrenica Muslims bury the dead

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


as salam alykom I found this on another board felt it is necessary to share it


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salam alaikum:


well i think this is a change from all the accusation made against muslims so far, atrocities and injustice both are key issues in modern history. this is a fact, however not done ONLY by muslims as the media seems fond of presenting. well maybe the muslim radicals did the bombings in london and maybe not.. but this is a reminder that not only muslims are terrorists. Ten years later,the international community still failed to bring to justice criminals of bosnian war. it seems justice is also selective!


May Allah bless the souls of those who were slaughtered, forgive their sins and place them in jennah. ameen


Srebrenica Muslims bury the dead


Tens of thousands of people have been attending ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica.


Grieving relatives are burying more than 600 newly identified dead, after prayers and words of support from international and local officials.


About 8,000 men and boys were killed by Serbian forces in 1995, in Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.


Serbian officials led by President Tadic paid respects for the first time.


They killed my entire life and the only thing I want now is to see the guilty ones pay for it


Fatima Budic


Mother and wife of victims


Muslim prayers echoed through the valley of the memorial site at Potocari, the site of the slaughter, as women in white headscarves wept beside the remains of their loved ones.


The green coffins were then passed from hand to hand through the crowd to the freshly dug grave sites, as announcers called out one by one the names of the 610 dead.


'Deeply sorry'


Earlier, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw apologised on behalf of the international community for not doing enough to prevent what he described as one of the darkest chapters of European history since 1945.


SREBRENICA MASSACRE





"For it is to the shame of the international community that this evil took place under our noses and we did nothing like enough. I bitterly regret this and I am deeply sorry for it," he said.


He said that it was "sickening" that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army commander Gen Ratko Mladic, who are accused of the slaughter, had not yet been brought to justice.


Also attending Monday's ceremonies were former US Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke and the president of the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Theodor Meron.


But the tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, boycotted the occasion to protest against the failure to arrest Mr Karadzic and Mr Mladic.


Bosnian police provided security for the event, which took place in the Serb-controlled part of the country, but international peacekeepers and police officers watched from a distance. The attack on Srebrenica was an assault on fundamental human rights


Auron Mejzini, Pristina, Kosovo


Have Your Say


The attendance by Serbian officials has been condemned by Serbian hardliners but welcomed by the chief international representative in Bosnia, Lord Ashdown.


"The Serb authorities and people are now moving from denial to recognition, and beyond that lies reconciliation," he told the BBC.


Arrests 'imminent'


In Serbia, many still believe the mass killings never took place. But a new video showing the execution of Muslim civilians sparked national soul-searching among Serbs last month.


SREBRENICA INDICTMENTS


Convicted, cases completed - 3 including former Bosnian Serb Army chief of staff Gen Radoslav Krstic


Appeals against convictions - 3


On trial - former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic


Cases at pre-trial stage - 9


Still at large - 3 including Radovan Karadzic and Gen Ratko Mladic


Source: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia


Dutch peacekeepers who were guarding the Srebrenica enclave at the time of the massacre have accepted partial responsibility for what happened.


Mr Karadzic and Gen Mladic have been indicted for genocide but are still at large.


Serbian President Boris Tadic told the Bosnian Serb newspaper Nezavisne Novine that he hoped Gen Mladic would be arrested in the next few days.


Many of the widows attending the ceremony are still waiting to see justice done, says the BBC's Nick Hawton in Srebrenica.


"They killed my entire life and the only thing I want now is to see the guilty ones pay for it," Fatima Budic, whose 14-year-old son Velija was one of the victims, told AP news agency. Her husband and another son are among the missing.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4670379.stm.