The shame of Srebrenica

Mourners praying at a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Centre and Cemetery in Potocari, Bosnia, in this file photo from July 11, 2016. — Andrew Testa/The New York Times

I FIRST went to Bosnia in 1992 to cover Europe’s worst war since Adolf Hitler’s. Like many others, I came away scarred when it ended in 1995.

In my case, the scars weren’t physical but deep – formed not only by the horror but by living with the failures of the West and the United Nations, failures that allowed the Srebrenica massacre to unfold.