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The echoes of the Kosovo war have all but dissipated now. Few remember the terrible tragedy of those years, when ethnic cleansing became a household word again.
But the hardest thing, for many people was the realization that Serbian officials were never going to acknowledge some of the atrocities committed against Muslims in that country. Sentiments, to this day, run high. Many consider some of the perpetrators of the genocide as heroes of the Jugoslav civil war.
Now, for the first time, the Serbian president has at least apologized for the massacre at Srebrenica, which saw more than 8,000 Muslims killed and piled up in mass graves.
Unfortunately, neither the words ethnic cleansing nor genocide were heard, something that the families of the victims were hoping for at some point in time.
However, his apology was a grand gesture that at least restored faith in some that the future might hold some sort of turnaround, some settlement of the hatred that festered during the conflict.
Source: France 24/ 4.25.13
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