Ratko Mladic verdict fails to ease pain in Bosnia

in life •  7 years ago 

 But no cheers could be heard on the streets of the Bosnian capital when news broke that the commander of Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the UN tribunal in The Hague."The verdict won't make any changes," said Resad Trbonja, a native of Sarajevo who became a teenage soldier to defend the city during the siege, that left more than 10,000 people dead.Now he works for the UK-based campaign organisation Remember Srebrenica."What we need to fight now is the legacy of the war - we're still living it. The weapons are down but the war is still going on."The only people who gain from the situation we are stuck in are the local politicians - they keep the legacy of war alive to maintain their power." 

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