the economist
Jul 12th 2011, 15:47 by T.J.
POTOCARI
IT IS night-time. Thousands of people are milling around. Cars are honking, meat is being grilled by the side of the road and a hundred or so young men are marching past shouting “Allahu Akbar.” Groups who have spent the last couple of days walking here flop down on the grass, exhausted but happy to have made it. This is Sunday night in Potocari, near Srebrenica.
The massacre of some 8,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys 16 years ago was the worst war crime in Europe since the second world war. But now Potocari has become Europe’s newest place of pilgrimage....more...
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/07/srebrenica-remembered
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