Omar Suleiman – Srebrenica Massacre Explained Europes Muslim Genocide

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The transcript discusses the Srebrenica terrorist community, including the killing of Bosnian Muslims and the dehumanization of Muslims in the United States. The community is now facing a lack of international accountability and the loss of lives of victims. The community is also focused on humanizing the victim and bringing life to the virtual world.

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			When I was 12, I saw all my
		
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			family, my father and my uncles shot right
		
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			in front of me. They were shot right
		
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			in front of my house and the people
		
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			who did it still live in my city.
		
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			This may sound like Gaza today,
		
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			but it's actually Srebrenica.
		
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			The genocide that occurred in Srebrenica
		
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			29 years ago this week when some 8,000
		
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			mostly Muslim Bosniaks were killed by a Serbian
		
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			nationalist militia
		
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			was the largest genocide Europe has seen since
		
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			the holocaust.
		
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			But it didn't come out of nowhere.
		
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			In the 3 years leading up to the
		
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			genocide,
		
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			an estimated 100,000
		
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			people were killed,
		
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			80% of whom were Bosniaks.
		
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			Mushkithara
		
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			has 3 children. They were all shelled last
		
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			week and their husband is dead.
		
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			2 sisters hit by shrapnel. Their parents were
		
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			both killed by shell fire in Cornish Polya.
		
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			Harta on the right has lost a leg.
		
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			Surgeons working around the clock have operated on
		
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			60 people so far. This girl has been
		
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			living off crumbs.
		
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			Today, there is near global consensus that there
		
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			was in fact a genocide in Srebrenica.
		
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			And today, we're seeing it in Gaza.
		
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			And in an information overload world, we're inundated
		
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			with the news of casualties and tragedies every
		
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			day. 10 killed here, 25 killed there, 700
		
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			killed
		
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			there, a hospital bombing here, a UN school
		
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			destroyed,
		
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			a whole family tree wiped out.
		
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			7 year old Hind Rajab's car shot
		
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			355
		
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			times. Understanding how genocide unfolds means remembering how
		
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			the systematic dehumanization
		
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			of a people is what permits it in
		
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			the first place.
		
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			It doesn't happen in one day.
		
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			It takes sustained neglect of a fellow human's
		
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			plight,
		
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			degradation,
		
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			and humiliation.
		
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			Women, children, and the old packed in so
		
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			tight, many were struggling to breathe.
		
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			There were numerous stops. The refugees were so
		
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			hungry and thirsty, they were begging us for
		
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			snow.
		
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			Suddenly, a tailgate broke open and women and
		
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			children spilled onto the road bringing yet more
		
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			misery.
		
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			Bringing down the sides of the lorries revealed
		
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			the full extent of the suffering these people
		
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			had gone through to escape the horrors of
		
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			Srebrenica.
		
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			One elderly man died on the way.
		
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			Some will never remember what they went through
		
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			to reach safety.
		
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			Others are unlikely ever to forget.
		
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			Would the victims of the Srebrenica genocide have
		
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			been brutally massacred if they weren't Muslim?
		
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			Despite their location in Europe and their Caucasian
		
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			identity,
		
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			Muslim Bosniaks were demonized,
		
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			dehumanized,
		
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			and consequently assigned for slaughter precisely because of
		
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			their Islam.
		
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			Post world war 2 decolonization
		
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			had already normalized the 3rd world Muslim victim
		
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			of Africa and Asia.
		
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			But in Europe itself, only a few decades
		
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			separated from the holocaust,
		
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			Europeans were boasting that they had already left
		
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			the savagery of the past behind.
		
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			Insert Islam however, and the Bosniak Muslim is
		
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			automatically
		
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			transformed into a natural casualty.
		
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			After seeing the aftermath of 8 1,000 men
		
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			and boys brutally slaughtered,
		
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			it begs the question,
		
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			did being Muslim alone potentially disqualify one from
		
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			being considered European
		
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			or even human?
		
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			You can go today to the video store
		
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			in Belgrade and take out the videos.
		
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			In my home city, which is today in
		
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			the Serbian part of Bosnia, this testimony from
		
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			1995 might as well have been from 2024.
		
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			The Bosnian genocide happened before social media,
		
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			before widespread Internet access, before a smartphone world.
		
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			Vance describes the job as one of the
		
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			toughest in the world underlined by the refugee
		
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			crisis in Tuzla and elsewhere,
		
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			where the orphanages are overfilled with young victims
		
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			like these from Srebrenica.
		
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			Now as a genocide unfolds in Gaza on
		
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			our phones, TVs, and tablets,
		
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			what's our excuse? We know in real time
		
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			as victims are murdered in cold blood. We
		
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			see the bodies of lifeless Palestinian children.
		
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			We observe the death toll increase
		
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			every single day.
		
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			In many ways, it seems like the information
		
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			overload at our fingertips has done little to
		
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			stop the killing.
		
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			9 months on, and Israel's undeterred genocide in
		
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			Gaza continues
		
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			with very little international accountability.
		
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			The question is, if we can see genocide
		
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			playing across our screens,
		
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			what does that mean for the world that
		
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			we live in today? And how do we
		
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			prevent
		
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			future Srebanitzas
		
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			and future ghazas from happening while still being
		
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			present in the moment and stopping this genocide
		
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			today? How do we avoid statistical numbness?
		
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			One in which where casualty counts past and
		
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			present are merely numbers,
		
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			absent souls.
		
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			When I visited the Srebrenica Memorial Center,
		
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			I was chilled to the bone by the
		
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			sheer number of graves.
		
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			Most of them containing
		
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			bodies or parts of bodies of Bosniak Muslims
		
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			recovered from mass graves.
		
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			They cover the ground as far as the
		
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			eye can see. And in Srebrenica, the air
		
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			itself seems to bear witness to the genocide
		
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			that took place
		
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			only less than 3 decades ago.
		
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			So many, many returning.
		
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			10 years to the day
		
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			to where so few escaped.
		
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			Not just massacred, but hurriedly buried, then methodically
		
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			exhumed to be hidden in deep pits.
		
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			Safe,
		
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			the Serbs hoped, from the eyes of the
		
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			world.
		
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			It could never have worked.
		
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			And so today, a decade on, 610
		
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			bodies identified by their DNA
		
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			were buried here in the mass cemetery for
		
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			Srebrenica,
		
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			laid to rest for a 3rd
		
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			and final time.
		
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			The difference between 1 casualty or 2, much
		
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			less 8,000 is the difference between night and
		
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			day. And the most chilling display at the
		
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			memorial center is this line of shoes
		
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			in the place where the victims were slaughtered
		
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			like animals.
		
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			Each pair a reminder that we must humanize
		
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			the victim and bring life to the virtual.
		
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			Every human being who once stood in those
		
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			shoes had tried to escape the horrific cruelty
		
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			of their tormentors.
		
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			The victims thought of many ways to run
		
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			and hide and dreamt of walking freely without
		
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			fear. They were children, parents,
		
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			insects. Now they were less than insects.
		
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			Now in Gaza avoiding statistical numbness is just
		
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			as important.
		
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			Resist it by humanizing hint, by humanizing the
		
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			soul of our soul Reem.
		
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			They are alive with their Lord, and they
		
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			need to remain alive in our hearts.