{"id":1526,"date":"2002-07-12T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2002-07-12T06:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2002-07-12T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2002-07-12T06:05:06","slug":"seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/","title":{"rendered":": Seven Years Later, Srebrenica Remembers a Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The scars are still visible everywhere in Srebrenica, with burnt out mosques and buildings marking the siege in 1995 that claimed the lives of 10,000 Muslims at the hands of Serbian general Ratko Mladic. Nevertheless, thousands of Muslims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk%2Fworldview%2Fstory%2F0%2C11581%2C750856%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">returned<\/a> to the Bosnian city this week to commemorate the massacre with a memorial led by Bosnia\u2019s chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org%2Fnca%2Ffeatures%2F2002%2F07%2F11072002171236.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Islamic cleric<\/a>. To commemorate the occasion, a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2Fhi%2Fenglish%2Fworld%2Fmonitoring%2Fmedia_reports%2Fnewsid_2104000%2F2104350.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new mosque<\/a> was opened to replace the scores of burned ones (contrasting with the majority of churches which remained unscathed). In the years that passed, the legal process has turned into a quagmire that led to the collapse of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fworld_comments.php%3Fid%3DP305_0_22_0_C%26which%3Dworld\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dutch government<\/a> in April and a troubled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Farticle.cgi%3Ffile%3D%2Fc%2Fa%2F2002%2F07%2F07%2FMN213545.DTL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">truth and reconciliation process<\/a> in Belgrade. And to illustrate that the war isn\u2019t completely over, a fugitive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz%2Fstorydisplay.cfm%3FstoryID%3D2050989%26thesection%3Dnews%26thesubsection%3Dworld\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">war criminal<\/a> was caught the same week, along with a raid on the home <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescotsman.co.uk%2Finternational.cfm%3Fid%3D718722002\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Radovan Karadic<\/a> (he is still at large). The good news? The US finally reached a compromise (postponement, rather) on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com%2Farticles%2F64237.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">renewed UN mandate<\/a> for US peacekeepers (the US still wants immunity from prosecution in the International Criminal Court). But for now, Muslims deal with their disrupted lives. \u201cI don\u2019t feel secure here any more,\u201d says one returnee. \u201cBefore the war we used to say we could lie down and sleep anywhere, in a forest or on a park bench, although we were not free to speak out. Now we can speak out, but it is no longer safe to lie down and sleep anywhere we want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Bosnian Muslims return to the scene of the worst mass killings in Europe since World War II to find slow changes, bitter memories, and stalled reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Seven Years Later, Srebrenica Remembers a Massacre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thousands of Bosnian Muslims return to the scene of the worst mass killings in Europe since World War II to find slow changes, bitter memories, and stalled reconciliation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Seven Years Later, Srebrenica Remembers a Massacre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thousands of Bosnian Muslims return to the scene of the worst mass killings in Europe since World War II to find slow changes, bitter memories, and stalled reconciliation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2002-07-12T06:05:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shahed Amanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/\",\"name\":\": Seven Years Later, Srebrenica Remembers a Massacre\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2002-07-12T06:05:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2002-07-12T06:05:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"Thousands of Bosnian Muslims return to the scene of the worst mass killings in Europe since World War II to find slow changes, bitter memories, and stalled reconciliation.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/seven_years_later_srebrenica_remembers_a_massacre\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Seven Years Later, Srebrenica Remembers a Massacre\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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