Remarks Following Russia's Veto of a Draft Resolution Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Genocide in Srebrenica
Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York, NY, July 8, 2015
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Thank you, Deputy Secretary General Eliasson, and High Commissioner Zeid, for your powerful presentations. I was a 24-year-old reporter in July 1995 living in Sarajevo when the Bosnian Serbs made their move on Srebrenica. I was there when – a few days after the Srebrenica safe area fell – a colleague first told me about reports of mass executions. “No,” was all I could say. “No.” |