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Article: A decade after Srebrenica, denial lingers while some elude justice.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2005
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Byline: Jon Sawyer
WASHINGTON _ The blue-helmeted United Nations soldier stood at attention and beside him a snowman, made up like a soldier too, snapping a firm salute.
The scene was in the hills outside Sarajevo a decade ago, in the shaky first days of peace after a war that had ravaged Bosnia and the Balkans for more than three years. Then, the snowman-soldier summed up what had been a mostly symbolic response by the U.N. and world.
Nearly a quarter of a million people had died, some 7,000 of them in a single week in the nearby village of Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb soldiers rounded up every man and boy they could find and systematically ...