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The Hague, Jul 16 (EFE).- Jaski Jaki Portegies Zwart was 23, Edo van der Berg 21 and Ben Stidge had just turned 18 when they arrived for the first time in Srebrenica as part of the United Nations group on an international mission. They felt untouchable — guardians of peace in a demilitarized territory. In 1995, they watched on powerlessly as 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by advancing Bosnian Serb troops.For 25 years, they and many other former soldiers have lived with the trauma of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. Camera: IMANE RACHIDI. Editor: JORGE OCAÑA. Production: JAVIER MARÍN
The Hague, Jul 16 (EFE), (Camera: Imane Rachidi).- Jaski Jaki Portegies Zwart was 23, Edo van der Berg 21 and Ben Stidge had just turned 18 when they arrived for the first time in Srebrenica as part of the United Nations group on an international mission. They felt untouchable — guardians of peace in a demilitarized territory. In 1995, they watched on powerlessly as 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by advancing Bosnian Serb troops.For 25 years, they and many other former soldiers have lived with the trauma of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two. They’ve had to field accusations of cowardice as they fight the Dutch government in a legal battle in which they claim they were abandoned and ordered to go on a “suicide mission”.SOUNDBITES OF FORMER BLUE HELMETS BEN STIDGE (00:00-04:07) AND EDO VAN DER BERG AND (04:07-END).
Srebrenica, Jul 11 (EFE/EPA).- With messages of pain and calls for reconciliation, Bosnia-Herzegovina held commemorations Saturday for the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.The solemn ceremony was joined by a number of world leaders who sent in video messages to mark the event.An estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb troops who advanced into Srebrenica, which at the time was a designated United Nations safe zone, on 11 July 1995. (Camera: FEHIM NEDIR). SHOT LIST: THE POTOCARI MEMORIAL CENTER, SREBRENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
The remains of 136 people killed during the massacre at Srebrenica 20 years ago are laid to rest, as Bosnian Muslims prepare to mark the anniversary. Diane Hodges reports.
A night vigil is held at a ceremony in Kigali paying tribute to victims 30 years after the Rwandan genocide. The 100-day massacre at the hands of Hutu extremists started on April 7 in 1994 and claimed the lives of 800,000 people, largely Tutsis but also moderate Hutus. IMAGES