I was blessed to go to Srebrenica, Bosnia this past weekend.
It was a great time with my father and also with Tom Foley.
Non the less, we were an intereseting trio. At every border crossing they looked at us like spies…
I will certainly NEVER FORGET the Serbian/Bosnian border…
My car was NEVER searched as this time…
Few words on Srebrenica.
Vukovar, you are a lucky, blessed place comapered to them… You are a brand new city compared to them… you are a thriving community compared to them…
Barely few buildings are renewed. The Serbian flags and the cyrilic signs are (to say the least) offending.
Huge line of cars, go towards the village Potočari. My father recalls the “famous” sentence of the war criminal Ratko Mladic: “Straight to Potočari”.
We went. 1 thing I can say for sure. As long as that bastard (Ratko Mladic) is free… UN, EU, USA, G8, Republic of Serbia, and everyone involved in hiding him IS A WAR CRIINAL.
Everyone should go there at least once in their life time.
What brout tears to my eyes?
0. A young guy who has walked more then 110 km out of resect for the victims
1. 534 cascets of mostly innocent victims…
2. Many family members waiting for their loved ones to be brought to them…
3. A young boy who was awaiting his grandfathers cascet
4. the seemingly endless number of cascets and the UNITY how they went hand to hand…
5. a girl
6. another girl, who was recording the funeral of her own brother… he was born in 1976.I was born in 1977. she could have been my younger sister…
7. no more cascets… for now.
Potočari, Srebrenica… I will come back.
till then:
Never forget that humans have rights.
Never forget that we (WE) sometimes have a responsability in it…
NEVER FORGET SREBRENICA.