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Eastern Europe & Balkans

The Bodies from Srebrenica

The Bosnian war began 30 years ago this week. Some of the parallels with Ukraine are striking.

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Julius Strauss
Apr 07, 2022
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I return to the agricultural shed near Srebrenica where 1,300 Bosnian Muslims were machine-gunned. Photo courtesy of Tamas Bethlendi.

High on a hillside not far from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica the remains of dozens of young Muslim men had been left to rot.

By the time I found them most of the flesh had been eaten away by forest scavengers - be…

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