Julius Strauss

Bucha and the dark echoes of Srebrenica

The Bosnian war began 30 years ago today. Some of the parallels with Ukraine are striking

A woman mourns at a cemetery near Srebrenica (photo: Getty)

High on a hillside not far from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica the remains of dozens of young Muslim men had been left to rot.

By the time I found them most of the flesh had been eaten away by forest scavengers – bears, wolves, foxes and even stray dogs – but the skeletons and skulls remained, some with rags of clothing and scraps of hair still attached.

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