SREBRENICA, A SYMBOL OF SUFFERING OF INNOCENTS & HYPOCRISY OF THOS

THOS $ E IN POWER - BH PRESIDENT SARAJEVO, July 11 (Hina) - "Today is the first anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica and the immense tragedy which befell our people", Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said in Sarajevo on Thursday to mark the anniversary of the Bosnian Serbs' capture of Srebrenica. After capturing the village, which at that time was a U.N. "safety zone", the Bosnian Serb army killed thousands of people. "Srebrenica is a symbol and a metaphor, because nowhere else did innocence so clearly face crime and nowhere else did that strange and shameful indifference and hypocrisy of the powerful show more clearly, those who could have prevented the catastrophe, but always found reasons not to do it", Izetbegovic said. (hina) ha jn 112049 MET jul 96