{"id":282,"date":"2013-04-08T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2014-11-25T05:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T05:43:30","slug":"srebrenica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/srebrenica\/","title":{"rendered":"Srebrenica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1rrCCKoktUE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rows and rows of headstones<br \/>\nA sight we&#8217;ve seen before<br \/>\nAnd beyond them the eye can see<br \/>\nRows and rows more&#8230;<br \/>\nThe dead of Srebrenica<br \/>\nVictims of a war crime<br \/>\nTheir remains we look at today<br \/>\nAnd wonder who and who by next time?<\/p>\n<p>Before it was Germans and Croatians<br \/>\nAnd Bosnians and Kosovars too<br \/>\nAnd the victims was the Serbs<br \/>\nAnd the gypsies and the Jew<br \/>\nAnd before them it was the others<br \/>\nAnd back and back until<br \/>\nEach side finds a reason why<br \/>\nThe other they have a reason to kill.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about humanity<br \/>\nTo kill each other we yearn<br \/>\nThe horrificness of history<br \/>\nDoes not seem to make us learn<br \/>\nThe only one people who suffers most<br \/>\nAnd desires for revenge not<br \/>\nAre maybe Gods only people left<br \/>\nThe gypsy that the world has forgot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rows and rows of headstones A sight we&#8217;ve seen before And beyond them the eye can see Rows and rows more&#8230; The dead of Srebrenica Victims of a war crime Their remains we look at today And wonder who and who by next time? Before it was Germans and Croatians &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[217,6,453],"tags":[455,457,456,454,2361],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cause-for-pause","category-video-poetry","category-yugoslav-wars","tag-bosnia","tag-ratko-mladic","tag-republica-srpska","tag-srebrenica","tag-yugoslav-wars","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-4y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":462,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/other-people-set-the-options-we-must-choose\/","url_meta":{"origin":282,"position":0},"title":"Other People Set the Options, We Must Choose","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"4th September 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This poem was inspired by an interview with Colonel Colm Mangan of the Irish PDF, on his retirement. 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