An essential film to view

Johnxf

An oft used mantra that followed the Holocaust of WWII was that an atrocity of that nature should never happen again. Yet it continues to this day with shocking regularity. Rwanda is one dark example and Srebrenica another with 8,000 men and boys slaughtered at the hands of the brutal Serbs.

Shown from the perspective of a translator to the UN forces in Srebrenica, Quo Vadis, Aida, ramps up the tension as the Bosnians try to survive in the 'safe camp' manned by Dutch UN troops.

The trains and cattle trucks of the Holocaust are replaced here by buses but the effect and consequences are the same.

It is ironic that the international court of justice is based in the Hague, where the Serb war criminals were tried. Yet it was the impotence of the Dutch forces on the ground in Srebrenica that led to the massacre.

The Serbs were clearly guilty of mass murder but the Dutch were culpable too for gross dereliction of duty.

This is an important film and one that I hope as many people watch as possible.

score 10/10

Johnxf 5 March 2021

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6662774/