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Thursday 02 Jul 2015 - 13:33 Makkah mean time-15-9-1436
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New York (IINA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, perpetrated 20 years ago, and which, he said, “will forever weigh on the collective conscience of the international community.”
“We are here to remember the thousands who lost their lives in the genocide…We are here to tell the families and friends of the victims that we share their sorrow. May their souls rest in peace,” said Ban in his remarks to the high-level commemorative event here on Wednesday, which honors the 8,000 men and boys who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces who overran Srebrenica – the largest such massacre on European soil since the founding of the United Nations.
Organized by the Preparatory Committee for the Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, which is made of 17 UN member states, as well as the Permanent Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina to United Nations, the ceremony was also attended by President of the General Assembly Sam Kutesa.
Ban said that the United Nations, “which was founded to prevent such crimes from recurring”, “failed in its responsibilities” to protect the lives of innocent civilians seeking protection from the conflict and violence around them. The UN Secretariat, the Security Council and member states share the blame, he added.
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