{"id":1799,"date":"2003-07-18T01:31:21","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T06:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2003-07-18T01:31:21","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T06:31:21","slug":"eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/","title":{"rendered":": Eight Years Later, The Srebrenica Death Toll Continues To Rise"},"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>It was the defining moment of the war in Bosnia \u2013 8000 Muslim men and boys who were supposed to be under UN protection in Srebrenica, a town surrounded by Serbian forces, were massacred and tossed into mass graves in what war crimes prosecutors call Europe\u2019s worst atrocity since World War II.  Today, eight years after the massacre, 282 more bodies (out of the total <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com%2Farticle.cfm%3FobjectID%3D749E50E9-C9DD-435E-A64056F7D9C8CB84\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">6000 recovered<\/a> from Srebrenica\u2019s earth) have been identified, bringing closure to thousands of Bosnian Muslims who gathered in a cemetery just outside the eastern Bosnian town to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org%2Fthenews%2Fnewsdesk%2FB335998.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">re-bury their dead<\/a> with a proper Muslim funeral.  \u201cThe grave in Srebrenica will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com%2FNews24%2FWorld%2FNews%2F0%2C%2C2-10-1462_1386246%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">only thing<\/a> I have left from my son,\u201d said Husein Pitarevic as he buried his son Adnan, a 14-year old whose remains were identified by DNA analysis.  Making the anniversary a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com%2Farticles%2F102463.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bitter one<\/a> was the fact that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic, both charged with genocide for leading the massacre, are still at large are the most wanted fugitives of the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague (where former Yugoslav President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com%2Farticles%2F103033.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Slobodan Milosevic<\/a> is on trial).  \u201cThe two top fugitives are still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2Fworldlatest%2Fstory%2F0%2C1280%2C-2896189%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">laughing<\/a> in the face of the world,\u201d said Bosnian Muslim leader Mustafa Ceric at the funeral prayer, \u201cwhile at the same time the mothers of Srebrenica are still screaming for their sons.\u201d  Last year, the entire Dutch government was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com%2Fworld_comments.php%3Fid%3DP305_0_22_0_C\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">forced to resign<\/a> after a report laid some blame for the deaths on Dutch authorities. In a bid to further heal the rift that exists between the two halves of Bosnia (the Croat-Muslim half and the Serb half), Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Dragan Mikerevic will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org%2Fnca%2Ffeatures%2F2003%2F07%2F11072003075235.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">first Serb representative<\/a> to the annual commemoration of the massacre, which is significant because to this day many ethnic Serbs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com%2Fsrebrenica.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">deny<\/a> that it even happened.<\/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>Eight years after the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Bosnia, new graves are found and justice waits to be done.<\/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-1799","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>: Eight Years Later, The Srebrenica Death Toll Continues To Rise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eight years after the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Bosnia, new graves are found and justice waits to be done.\" \/>\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\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": Eight Years Later, The Srebrenica Death Toll Continues To Rise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eight years after the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Bosnia, new graves are found and justice waits to be done.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2003-07-18T06:31:21+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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/\",\"name\":\": Eight Years Later, The Srebrenica Death Toll Continues To Rise\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2003-07-18T06:31:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2003-07-18T06:31:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/0e0efbb645cc461c721083358f82f945\"},\"description\":\"Eight years after the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Bosnia, new graves are found and justice waits to be done.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/07\/eight_years_later_the_srebrenica_death_toll_continues_to_rise\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": Eight Years Later, The Srebrenica Death Toll Continues To Rise\"}]},{\"@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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