America didnt do shit for us. Clinton is still a good guy though. RIP to all the victims and condolences to the families. My family is friends with this woman that lost her husband and all 3 of her sons at Srebrenica. So crushing. Vitez, that song is haunting bro.
I'll take your word for it, you were old enough to remember all of this but I also would like to believe my family because they all say the same thing. RIP to all the victims and condolences to the families that lost someone during that time. Never forgive, never forget Srebrenica.
And that's the only thing. Actually believe it or not, these conservative Republicans in the US actually wanted to send us weapons and lift the arms embargo. Even that scumbag Joe Lieberman was heavily on our side lol. http://acfbh.wordpress.com/tag/joe-lieberman/ http://www.rferl.org/content/Lieberman_Criticizes_Serb_Republic_Referendum_Law/1955605.html
Republicans earn campaign money from weapon companies that lobby them to take on an interventionist foreign policy so the companies can sell weapons to governments and make money.
Then why not lift the embargo earlier. I don't think our government would of cared that we bought weapons from them I think they just wanted something to defend themselves with
They lifted it in fucken 1995. The entire international involvement made it sooo much easier for the Serbs in the war.
Im struggling to figure out why they put an embargo on all republics yet one side had clear advantage over all others. There must of been some deal with the UN
RIP to all the victims. I feel your pain guys. May this never happen again around our corners Can't stand the genocide deniers and I'll be honest with you guys some of them are my cousins, I guess every Bosnian Serb has those kinds of family members somewhere..
I was at the memorial this year and a part of me was disgusted while the other was sad. To actually be there and witness the countless graves is heart breaking. Its been seventeen years and wounds are still fresh as ever. How do you explain to a mother that her sons body has yet to be found? Or to the wife that they have yet to find the head of her husbands skeleton? I cried my eyes out, watching a mother mourn the death of her fifteen year old son, and the forty names of my family members that have yet to be found. There was also the buildings where they kept the victims during the war, you can still see the blood splattered on the wall, at this point its turned black. The other part of me was disgusted. The entire thing has almost become like a circus. You have people selling cevapi, girls wearing heels, makeup and skirts, people laughing, stepping all over graves. You have political figures only coming to the memorial as a way to gain public support and some votes. Instead of the wives and mothers that lost sons and husbands, these political figures sat in chairs where there was shade and pretended to actual show compassion. You had president Obama issue a statement, some can believe it was genuine, others can be smart and realize he only did it because he knows of the bosnian community in America. People are forgetting what the actual memorial is about, where has the respect gone for the victims and their families?
Because some people think the war is nonexistent and just carry on normall, drink coffee and think things will change and forget what happened. Why can't everyone come together, accept what happened, clear the blood stains on the wall and carry on like we aren't still in 1996 which in all ways it feels as if we are. I got back from Bosnia recently and I could feel it, I could rant more, but I'm not up for it. Like a normal country. But oh well. Edit: 40 relatives? Oh my god. I'm terribly sorry. I luckily didn't lose anyone.
Interesting you went. Don't think I'll ever go because of the sorrow that remains present. I'd have trouble keeping my stuff together. I have trouble keeping myself in front of my fathers grave, let alone 8,000.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us, Cheerios. Very sad to hear about what those people are doing, it's disgraceful. Almost reminds you of the Bosnian Serbs who throw parties every July 11th just to provoke the Bosniaks and the genocide that occured in our country. What a mess.
"I realised that if I set my expectations at the lowest possible of events that may happen, then i'm never surprised."
After seeing the lack of respect at the memorial, I could have ranted for days. Yeah, extended family and such. Almost lost my father too
respect The serbians held a vašer during the memorial. They also have their own memorial a day after...
You tagged the wrong person. And I know that, but I'm talking about the ones who party on July 11th just to provoke the Bosniaks. It's sickening.
This is only the norm in Bosnia, and whilst id never expect it in NZ, im used to BIH. Killers remain neighbours. Imagine if Nazis controlled half of Germany in 1970. Thats Bosnia for you.