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Larry Hollingworth

🧵 Serb forces have shelled Srebrenica’s playground, while civilians were playing football.

My first thought is for the commander who gave the order to attack. I hope he burns in the hottest corner in hell.

My second thought is for the soldiers who loaded the breaches and fired the guns. I hope their sleep is forever punctuated by the screams of the children and the cries of their mothers.

And I think of the many Serbs that I know around this country, and I wonder: do they want the history of the Serb nation to include this chapter, a chapter in which their army drove innocent people from village to village to village until…

…finally they are cornered in Srebrenica, a place from which there is no escape, and where their fate is to be transported out like cattle, or slaughtered like sheep?