A Kosovo Liberation Army honour guard stands besides the coffins of the three Bytyqi brothers during a wake held in New York, 3 March 2002. Paimages/Shawn Baldwin. All rights reserved.
Summer isn’t meant to be experienced like a slow motion horror film. But for thousands of Balkan families, the second week of July isn’t filled with family picnics and joyful reunions. It is reliving kidnappings, rapes, torture, and murder.
Twenty-one years ago, roughly 8,000 Muslim men and boys as young as ten years old were rounded up and summarily executed in Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serb Army, an army supported by Serbian officials.
