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# Srebrenica massacre anniversary: Barack Obama calls for capture of Ratko
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Mladic
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## US President Barack Obama has described the Srebrenica massacre as a "stain
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on our collective conscience" and urged governments to redouble their efforts
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to track down key suspect Ratko Mladic.
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TelegraphPlayer-7884232
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[Link to this video][1]
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7:00AM BST 12 Jul 2010
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"On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica, and on
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behalf of the United States, I join my voice with those who are gathered to
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mourn a great loss and to reflect on an unimaginable tragedy," Mr Obama said.
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"I have said, and I believe, that the horror of Srebrenica was a stain on our
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collective conscience," he said in a statement issued in Washington but also
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read out a graveyard ceremony near Srebrenica.
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"Justice must include a full accounting of the crimes that occurred, full
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identification and return of all those who were lost, and prosecution and
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punishment of those who carried out the genocide. This includes Ratko Mladic,
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who presided over the killings and remains at large."
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Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader, is accused of masterminding the
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44-month siege of Sarajevo that left 10,000 people dead and the July 1995
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massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
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He has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former
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Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the
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darkest episode in the violent 1990s break-up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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## Related Articles
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* [Srebrenica 15th anniversary: 775 victims buried][2]
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* [Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic fears for his life if extradited to
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Serbian prison][3]
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10 Jul 2010
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To mark the anniversary, bereaved families and survivors buried hundreds of
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victims of the Srebrenica massacre.
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Some 50,000 people, including European leaders and the presidents of all
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former Yugoslav republics, were present in the Potocari graveyard where 775
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victims were buried along side the 3,749 bodies already there.
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After the fall of the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb troops
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systematically killed nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in just a few days.
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The victims were shot and dumped in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly in
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more than 70 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence.
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Bones exhumed by forensic experts over the past few years were buried in
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Potocari after identification through DNA testing.
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While the remains of nearly 6,500 people have been identified, many found in
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more than one grave, many families are holding off burial in the hope that
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more body parts, or those of another relative, will turn up.
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The presence of Serbian President Boris Tadic's presence at the ceremony was a
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sore point for many survivors with Mladic still at large.
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"He should be ashamed to come to Potocari as long as he hasn't arrested the
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most wanted war criminals, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic," said Hatidza
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Mehmedovic, who lost her husband and two sons in the massacre.
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For years Belgrade denied the scale of the bloodbath but this March the
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Serbian parliament passed a declaration condemning the massacre and
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apologising to victims and their families.
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It also pledged to arrest Mladic.
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The alleged mastermind behind the Bosnian Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing
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and the Srebrenica killings, political leader Radovan Karadzic, has been
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arrested in Belgrade and is standing trial for genocide.
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