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Clarification - Bosnia

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In World News Australia on Sunday May 26, a story was run on the reaction of Bosnians to the arrest of the Bosnian Serb wartime military commander, Ratko Mladic, in which a Bosnian woman was subtitled as saying: "What happened, happened. If people can, they should try to forget. That would be best."

Unfortunately, due to an editing error, vision and audio of a different woman, Bakira Hasecic, described as a victim of the Bosnian Serb rape campaign, was run, in which she said (in Bosnian): "My house is maybe 200 meters away from here. Today I am recalling the worst memories, standing on this bridge which in 1992 was covered with Bosniak blood, like a carpet."

The vision should have shown another woman, Adila Semdo, whose two brothers-in-law and father-in-law were killed in Bosnia, saying in Bosnian "What happened, happened. If people can, they should try to forget. That would be best."


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