In commemoration of the
Srebrenica massacre (July 11, 1995), Phillip Ruch has constructed a tower of shoes just in front of the Brandenburg Gate. It serves as a warning to the United Nations that it should never again simply stand by as "genocide unfolds". In July, 1995, UN peacekeepers were unable to stop the massacre of 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serbian paramilitary forces. Ultimately, he will use the shoes to spell out U.N. in the hills above Srebrenica. Today the shoes are in Berlin, you can see a video after the
jump. In a New York Times story, Ratko Mladic's
personal diaries from the Balkan Wars are in the hands of prosecuting attorneys in the Hague. At this point, the sources don't provide much information about Srebrenica, but they do serve to provide additional evidence undermining Serb claims that the Bosnian Serbs acted alone.
