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Article: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton to open Srebrenica memorial center
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- September 20, 2003
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ALEXANDAR S. DRAGICEVIC, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-20-2003
Dateline: SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton joined thousands of survivors of Europe's worst massacre since World War II Saturday in a ceremony to open a memorial center dedicated to the up to 8,000 Muslims killed here.
The slaughter in Srebrenica has become a symbol for the brutality of Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, which pitted the country's Muslims, Serbs and Croats against each other. The war killed 260,000 and left 1.8 million people displaced.
Srebrenica, a town located 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Sarajevo, had declared a "safe zone" by the United Nations when it was overrun by ...