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Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. We begin with the e Memorial Service in treb knee is a. Tense of thousands of people are gathering there. Many were killed by bosnian forces. You see the live. Pictures as people are coming together. Some lit candles to honor the victims, but even after the u. N. Ruled it a genocide, many still deny that. Christiane amanpour reported on this massacre back then and is there again today. Its good to have you with us. To see what you saw back then and to know that countries recently refusing vetoing a resolution condemning the killings of such what are your thoughts about that . Well the tragedy, george there were no journalists when the place fell. Reporters showed the chilling images of them. After the fall on this day 20 years ago was shown handing out sweets and candy to the women and children who then separate ed in advance of their monstrous plan to kill the men and the boys boys. And this was really very chilling. It
More than 70 Million People, think about that for a minute. More than 70 Million People fought in that war. And before it was over more than 15 Million People soldiers and civilians were dead. 15 Million People killed. Some estimates say it was significantly higher than that, more like 17 Million People killed. And the fighting and the terms on which that war was fought, they were almost unimaginably disgusting. War is always a terrible thing. But especially for a war that went on for years, the conditions were heretofore unimaginable. It was the first time armies used poison gases for mass killings on the battlefield. The armenian civilian population was decimated in a genocide. P. O. W. Camps turned into basically starvation pens where thousands of people were tortured and died. It was hell on earth. It was hell. And everybody agreed that it had been hell. That it had been an unprecedented manmade hell on earth when it finally ended at the end of those four terrible years. But then 2
Between all of those great powers and all the smaller countries that joined up alongside them along the two sides. Eventually you had most of the countries in the world facing off in a war that went on for four years. More than 70 Million People, think about that for a minute. More than 70 Million People fought in that war. And before it was over more than 15 Million People soldiers and civilians were dead. 15 Million People killed. Some estimates say it was significantly higher than that, more like 17 Million People killed. And the fighting and the terms on which that war was fought, they were almost unimaginably disgusting. War is always a terrible thing. But especially for a war that went on for years, the conditions were heretofore unimaginable. It was the first time armies used poison gases for mass killings on the battlefield. The armenian civilian population was decimated in a genocide. P. O. W. Camps turned into basically starvation pens where thousands of people were tortured
Off in a war that went on for four years. More than 70 Million People, think about that for a minute. More than 70 Million People fought in that war. And before it was over more than 15 Million People soldiers and civilians were dead. 15 Million People killed. Some estimates say it was significantly higher than that, more like 17 Million People killed. And the fighting and the terms on which that war was fought, they were almost unimaginably disgusting. War is always a terrible thing. But especially for a war that went on for years, the conditions were heretofore unimaginable. It was the first time armies used poison gases for mass killings on the battlefield. The armenian civilian population was decimated in a genocide. P. O. W. Camps turned into basically starvation pens where thousands of people were tortured and died. It was hell on earth. It was hell. And everybody agreed that it had been hell. That it had been an unprecedented manmade hell on earth when it finally ended at the en