Berlin – 15th anniversary of Srebrenica genicde

A pile of more than 16,000 shoes, each pair representing one of 8,372 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, are placed with a “U.N.” sign in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Sunday July 11, 2010. The shoes were collected to make ‘The Pillar of Shame’, German activist’s Phillip Ruch’s monument to Srebrenica. On July 11, 1995, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men, youths and children were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb troops in an enclave cowardly abandoned by U.N. peacekeepers.