On July 11th, 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men were killed by Serbian troops in Srebrenica. The UN peace troops stood by and watched. They had no mandate to intervene. It was one of the darkest chapters in the history of the organisation.
15 years later, an artwork of more than 16.000 shoes, each pair representing one of the victims, are ought to remind the world of the UN’s failure to apologise for letting the people they were supposed to protect down and their refusal to admit their passive guilt for the worst massacre on European soil, since the Holocaust.
When four years later, Milosevic tried to do to Kosovo what he had done in Bosnia, Britain and America intervened. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton did not repeat the mistakes of the Major administration and the UN. They understood the concept of passive guilt. It arguably saved tens of thousands of people their lives.
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