Session #104 · 1995–97

Speech #1040090468

I do not know how many of my colleagues saw the picture on the front page of the New York Times this morning. It is an unusual and historic picture. When you first look at it. all you see is a group of refugees. If you look a little closer. you will see men in military uniform. Those men are part of what has been called the U.N. Protection Force. They are standing by observing men being taken out of Srebrenica who are suspected. by Bosnian Serb forces of "war crimes." young women being taken out for purposes that I cannot describe. old women and children who are starving to death and being forced to walk unknown distances. Rather than describe it in my words. let me just read: In what has been a ritual of previous "ethnic cleansing" campaigns by the Bosnian Serbs to rid territories of Muslim populations. the Serbs who took Srebrenica separated the militaryage men from the refugees and said they would be "screened for war crimes." a United Nations spokesman here said. The air was filled with anguished cries as the Bosnian Serbs loaded the first 3.000 women. children and elderly... Mr.
Keywords matched
refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Humanitarian Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN MCCAIN
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AZ
Gender
M
Date
1995-07-13
Speech ID
1040090468
Paragraph
#0
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