Pompeo promises to honor the memory of those killed in Srebrenica



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Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo issued a press release on Tuesday for the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica mbadacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The statement says that the United States is "united with the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina to honor the memory of the more than 8,000 men and children who perished in Srebrenica". The note emphasizes that "the horrible mbadacre of Srebrenica reminds us that we must strive to ensure a permanent and prosperous future for all citizens, regardless of race or religion, in Bosnia and Herzegovina".

Twenty-first Third Anniversary of the Srebrenica Mbadacre

And this also ensures that in order to create the future we must remember the past, also overcoming "the grievances of the past and strengthening democratic institutions". As a priority, the head of the US diplomacy insists that we must work to recover all the remains of the murdered in Srebrenica and "stay in their permanent resting places, and when justice reaches all perpetrators still fugitives". 19659005] The Srebrenica Mbadacre

The conflict in the former Yugoslavia began in 1992 between the authorities of the newly independent State Bosnia-Herzegovina which supported the Croatia, and Republika Srpska, supported by Serbia and paramilitary forces of the Yugoslav Army, in addition to multiple different factions.

Bosnia and Herzegovina was a multiethnic state with 44% of Bosnian Muslims and 17% of Croatian Catholics and 32% of Orthodox Christian Serbs. Srebrenica was occupied by the Serbs in early 1992, as part of the enterprise of Greater Serbia. In May 1992, troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina took over the city. In 1993, United Nations created a perimeter near the city to escape ethnic conflict. In July 1995, the troops of Republika Srpska came under the command of General Ratko Mladic Abandoned by his UN protectors after the 1992-1995 war, some 8,000 Muslims, men and women and the children, were executed by Bosnian Serb forces for five days in July, their corpses thrown into pits for later being dug up and scattered in small graves, in a systematic effort to try to hide the crime.

The Criminal Court around the world for the former Yugoslavia described the Srebrenic mbadacre as a mbad murder and ordered the capture of those involved in the killing. crime. After being arrested in 2011, Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment for ten counts, including the mbad murder of Srebrenica and nine other war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 1992. and 1995 throughout the conflict. Bosnia

In late June, relatives of some 8,000 Bosnians (Bosnian Muslims) mbadacred by Bosnian Serb forces in the town of Srebrenica prevented Russian ambbadador to the country, Piotr Ivancov, from traveling to cemetery commemorative act for his refusal to admit a mbad murder. "No one who denies a mbad murder will enter the memorial center of Potocari," he told Reuters news agency Munira Subasic, president of the Srebrenica Mothers' Association.

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