Sunday, May 10, 2009
A sort of unconventional Mother's Day post...
http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/
Daniel has been covering the Srebenica genocide for a long time now. He has done stellar work in raising awareness.
In Sarajevo someon who lived in my mahal was one of the Mothers of Srebenica. I used to regularly ride the bus with this very dignified older lady. Her sun was Nermin. It was her husband who was forced to call Nermin out of the forest where he and his comrades were hiding from the aggressors. Both men were killed.
Her face looked strangely familiar to me. Then I saw her on the news, then I saw the infamous film clip and then an interview of her on FTV, and then I knew who she was.
It is an awful thing to survive such an attrocity and to lose your dear ones. In fact only Stalin really tried to destroy such evidence. Bear in mind that this in a less informational age was ultimately a failure! The United Nations should not be destroying such evidence of massacres any place of anyone. Of ALL organizations on this earth they should KNOW better!
WHY IS THE EVIDENCE BEING DESTROYED?
This did not happen in the case of the Holocaust nor in the case of the Armenians. So why is it that European Muslims must take this insult on top of so many other insults?
It is neither right, nor fair. It is a dishonor to the mothers and sisters of the victims of the largest massacre on European soil since the Holocaust and Stalin's massacres.
Daniel has been covering the Srebenica genocide for a long time now. He has done stellar work in raising awareness.
In Sarajevo someon who lived in my mahal was one of the Mothers of Srebenica. I used to regularly ride the bus with this very dignified older lady. Her sun was Nermin. It was her husband who was forced to call Nermin out of the forest where he and his comrades were hiding from the aggressors. Both men were killed.
Her face looked strangely familiar to me. Then I saw her on the news, then I saw the infamous film clip and then an interview of her on FTV, and then I knew who she was.
It is an awful thing to survive such an attrocity and to lose your dear ones. In fact only Stalin really tried to destroy such evidence. Bear in mind that this in a less informational age was ultimately a failure! The United Nations should not be destroying such evidence of massacres any place of anyone. Of ALL organizations on this earth they should KNOW better!
WHY IS THE EVIDENCE BEING DESTROYED?
This did not happen in the case of the Holocaust nor in the case of the Armenians. So why is it that European Muslims must take this insult on top of so many other insults?
It is neither right, nor fair. It is a dishonor to the mothers and sisters of the victims of the largest massacre on European soil since the Holocaust and Stalin's massacres.
# posted by Katja R. @ 12:26 PM 
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I presume that was Mrs Osmanovic who's seen at the beginning of Cry from the Grave. I was saying to Daniel how terrible it must be for her to be confronted with the constant reshowing of that clip of her husband calling their son down to his death. The clip is important because it is such a graphic illustration of the way that the men of Srebrenica were collected up for slaughter. Mrs Osmanovic's willingness to tell her story in public and endure the endless repetition of that moment is a sacrifice that deserves enormous respect.
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: 9:36 AM
: 9:36 AM
Yes it has to be terrible, there is a family here in the States who lost a daughter in a tragic accident and the accident and it's aftermath have been ALL over the Internet, it's gone viral and it pains them to the point that they have taken legal action.
I can tell you that Mrs. Osmanovic is a wonderful and kind person. I consider it an honor even to have shared bus space with this woman!
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I can tell you that Mrs. Osmanovic is a wonderful and kind person. I consider it an honor even to have shared bus space with this woman!
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