President. today. July 11. marks the second anniversary of the fall of the socalled safe area of Srebrenica. one of the three eastern enclaves in Bosnia. By most estimates. following the fall of Srebrenica over 8.000 Muslim refugees fleeing the Serb forces simply disappeared. Many of these refugees were old men. women. and children. killed in acts of inhuman cruelty. Even today. 2 years later. the vast majority of these people are still unaccounted for. Others from Srebrenica were luckierforced to flee their homes as part of a brutal policy of ethnic cleansing. I am still haunted by an image from a picture that I saw in the newspaper shortly after the fall of Srebrenica. It was a picture of a young woman. a refugee from Srebrenica. around 20 years old. who climbed a tree. tied a rope around her neck. and hung herself. A photographer captured her lifeless body as it hung from the tree. Mr.
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