A documentary on Srebrenica has yet to be screened in Greece

"Only a few Greeks know about the worst massacre on European territory since World War II", notes the journalist Paschos Mandravelis referring to the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica. "'A cry from the grave', a documentary shot by Leslie Woodhead was screened in Belgrade, but it never made it to a Greek theater. Our Orthodox Serb brothers, as it were, and the Greek volunteers who took part in the slaughter are still a taboo subject in this country. The endless mass graves that continue to be unearthed in this ill-fated town are to Greeks a tragic detail of a civil war (as we became accustomed to calling it) rather than the result of years-long systematic ethnic cleansing by Serb troops ... . This is not a Serbian stigma, but one that marks the entire western world – all of us who allowed criminals like Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic to send thousands of civilians to their deaths."

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