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"Mr President, the resolution we shall vote on tomorrow is important, not only because it comes at a time when, ten years after the massacre, there are still people who do not believe that it happened, but also because neither the Serbian nor the Bosnian-Herzegovinan Parliament has been able to agree upon such a resolution. The Serbian Members of the Bosnian Parliament could not accept either the wording of the resolution or the compromise proposals.
As recently as today, someone has placed an explosive charge by the monument erected in Srebrenica in memory of all the victims. As someone born in Bosnia who experienced the war we are talking about today, I feel a responsibility to convey to you at least a few of the many feelings we were forced each day to deal with during the war.
The world was shocked by the video images shown recently in The Hague of young men being executed. We lived those images. I therefore want to describe to you what it is like to be on the other side. I am now going to read out part of an accused’s statement to the Hague Tribunal, written down by a journalist and writer who followed the proceedings. ‘In the corner of his eye, the accused saw a young boy get off the bus. The boy may have been fifteen years old or perhaps younger. He looked at the soldiers and then at the rows of dead bodies in the field. His eyes widened as if he could scarcely believe what he was witnessing. When the prisoners fell to their knees, just before the soldiers were ordered to shoot, the accused heard the boy’s voice: ‘Mummy’, he whispered; ‘Mummy’. That day, the accused heard people pleading for their lives and grown men crying. He heard them promise the soldiers money, cars and even houses. That boy, however, called for his mum, as children do when they have had a horrible dream.’
If we are to have any chance at all of moving on after the Balkan wars, we must primarily ensure that everyone who is guilty of crimes is brought to justice: not only those who are accused before the Hague Tribunal but also those who are still free and who should be prosecuted before the national courts as soon as possible. We owe that not only to those who were murdered but also to those who survived."@en1
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