(see related)Premier Matteo
Renzi said Wednesday that ongoing slaughter at the hands of
fundamentalist Islamic State (ISIS) militia in Iraq amounts to
genocide, as happened in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.
"I was 20 years old (at the time) and the international
community did nothing while the Srebrenica genocide took place,"
said Renzi, Italy's youngest premier at 39.
"Many in my generation said 'Never again'. What is
happening now in areas of Syria and Iraq amounts to genocide:
women separated from the men, children gunned down, journalists
decapitated," the premier said just before leaving Erbil, the
capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
"Europe cannot afford to remain silent this time, because
this battle is in the very heart of Europe," said Renzi.
Bosnian Serbs in July 1995 slaughtered more than 8,000
Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, in what
the United Nations described as the worst crime on European soil
since World War II.
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