Srebrenica Massacre Mosque Reopened
The reopening of Dalye Hosta mosque comes almost after two decades of Srebrenica massacre in which more than 8,000 Bosniaks, who were taking refuge in UN camp controlled by Dutch peacekeepers, were killed in July 1995.
Last month, a Dutch court has found Netherlands liable for the killing of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims out of 8,000 who were killed 1995, ordering the nation to pay compensations for the families of the Muslim victims.
Though knowing the war crimes of Serbs and that Muslims would be killed, Dutch peacekeepers (Dutchbat) deported the 300 Bosniaks outside the base, leaving them in the woods where they were massacred later.
Relatives of the slain Bosniaks slammed the ruling and the compensations saying that it has “no sense of justice”.
Bosnia fell into civil war in 1992 that left 200,000 people dead and displaced millions as Serb forces launched ethnic cleansing campaign against Bosnian Muslims.
During the 43-month war, which claimed some 200,000 lives, nearly two million people fled their homes, half a million of them are still listed as refugees.
In the final months of the three-year war, Serb forces, led by General Ratko Mladic, overran Srebrenica, killing some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic, the two people considered most responsible for the massacre, are both facing trial for genocide before the UN war crimes court in The Hague over Srebrenica.
The other main protagonists of the war have all died or have been convicted of war crimes.
Source: On Islam
