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To: RetiredNow who wrote (244190)	7/30/2005 2:39:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575767

Well, I'm the first generation of my family born in the U.S. and I've experienced a little haranguing over my ethnic background, but I usually just laugh it off and come back with a worthy rejoinder. I didn't join gangs and I don't bomb my country. I said there are some who are able to rise above it. For many, its not an easy thing to do. As far as discrimination goes, there will always be that as long as their are humans with different cultures and skin colors. But in the U.S. and U.K., you still have plenty of opportunities to overcome that. The great equalizer, as I have found out, is education, money, and career success. With a superior education, I found out that it's pretty easy to make discriminatory people look like fools. Then add to that money and career success and all the discrimination pretty much stops. At least that has been my experience. Again, not a surprise.........education is the key to getting out of any ghetto. However, not everyone has that kind of courage and discipline. The Brazilian who was killed seemed to have that kind of courage and discipline but its not all that common. Anyway, I guess there will always be neanderthals out there, but I wonder why they seem to be mostly concentrated among Muslims nowadays? If you lived in LA, you'd wonder why it was concentrated in Latinos and blacks.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (244190)	7/30/2005 2:46:09 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575767

Thousands mourn '95 massacre in Bosnia Tuesday, July 12, 2005 By Dusan Stojanovic, The Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Women wept yesterday as they finally buried husbands and sons 10 years after Europe's worst massacre since World War II -- funerals made possible by the excavation of mass graves of victims killed by Bosnian Serb forces. An extraordinary gathering of 30,000 people -- including the president of Serbia -- came to Srebrenica to mark the anniversary and honor the dead at a memorial cemetery across from an abandoned car battery factory that was the wartime base for Dutch U.N. soldiers. The Dutch were supposed to protect Srebrenica -- a designated U.N. safe zone-- from Serbian attacks during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But outmanned and outgunned, the Dutch mission watched as Srebrenica's men and boys were separated from the women and led away, to be slain and dumped into shallow graves that are still being discovered a decade later. To the sound of Muslim prayers echoing across a sprawling green valley, family members wandered among 610 caskets of the most recently identified victims of the July 11, 1995, massacre, in which some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. After a religious service, the caskets were passed from hand to hand toward the graves and buried beside 1,330 existing graves. The sound of dirt striking the coffins and the weeping of women mingled with a voice reading the names of victims. Fatima Budic huddled yesterday over the coffin of her 14-year-old son, Velija, before the burial, alone in her grief. "They killed my entire life, and the only thing I want now is to see the guilty ones pay for it," she sobbed. Her husband and 16-year-old son have never been found. World leaders offered apologies yesterday for the inaction of the international community. They called for the arrest of the top war crimes fugitives, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic, and their extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. "It is the shame of the international community that this evil took place under our noses," British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said. "I bitterly regret this, and I'm deeply sorry for it." On a fence, families of the victims hung a huge banner with their own count of the dead. It read: "Europe's shame -- genocide. 8,106 murdered in Srebrenica." The ceremony opened with the Bosnian anthem and the raising of the Bosnian flag, followed by a choral performance of "Srebrenica Inferno," a song written for the anniversary that tells of a dead boy speaking to survivors. "Mother, sister, I can't find you, where are you?" the choir sang, as women in the crowd wept. "The crimes that were committed here were not simply murders," said Theodor Meron, president of the U.N. war crimes court. "They were targeted at a particular human group with the intent to destroy it. They were so heinous that they warrant the gravest of labels: Genocide." There was no visible presence of Bosnian Serbs at yesterday's service, although Bosnian television aired it live. It was also carried live in Serbia, which confronted the horrors of Srebrenica for the first time only recently, when a videotape showing the slaying of six men and boys in Srebrenica shocked residents, who had been largely uninformed about atrocities committed by Bosnian Serb troops. Serbia's President Boris Tadic attended the service -- a significant gesture given Serbia's political and military backing of the Bosnian Serbs during the war. He did not speak at the ceremony but earlier said his gesture should be considered an act of remorse to Srebrenica's Muslims. post-gazette.com