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NEWS & LETTERS, August-September 2001 Oxford, England-Some 50 people, members of the Bosnia-Herzegovina community and British and international supporters, gathered in Whitehall on July 7 for a two hour vigil, marking the sixth anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica. We put on white smocks, on which were written the names of those who are missing, believed killed, although their remains have not yet been identified. We handed out leaflets with this message in English and Serbo-Croat: "On the sixth anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica and the genocidal murder of 8,000 men and boys, we support the demands of the Women of Srebrenica by calling upon the UK government, the European Community and the UN: "To honor their commitment to arrest all indicted war criminals, especially Karadzic and Mladic. We support the chief prosecutor of The Hague Tribunal, Carla del Ponte, in her call for special forces to carry out these arrests. To make publicly available all information on the role of the UN and the international community in the fall of Srebrenica. We demand the British government comply with the French Parliamentary Enquiry's urgent request to hear evidence from General Rupert Smith, former commander of UN forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina. "To increase material assistance and provision of security for the courageous survivors of genocide now returning to Srebrenica. To increase assistance to those who are unable to return, by providing women in collective refugee centres with opportunities to support and educate their children and to live with self-respect, dignity and hope for the future. "To continue and increase financial support and provide expert assistance for exhumation and identification of the missing. To support the survivors of Srebrenica, the Committee for the Sixth Anniversary and the Committee for Implementation of the Project of the Memorial Complex and the Cemetery in Potocari, in their plan to lay the foundation stone of the Memorial Complex at Potocari." -Richard Bunting |
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