Tuesday May 18th is a day in history
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It's a day that has been contantly repeated for years and years
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A day no more or less significant than any other day
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It's only a blur in the endless carnage and suffering
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That possesses the stinging similarity to the Nazi holocaust
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These atrocities, however, are happening right now
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It's just another day of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia
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Ethnic cleansing is the Serbian invented euphemism
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Describing the atrocities being committed against Muslim and Croatian civilians
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The war that began in April 1992 was predictable
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What was not so predictable was the cold-blooded murder of civilians,
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Nor was the massive deportation in over crowded cattle cars
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Of trains to concentration camps
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Upon arrival at these camps prisoners are sheared like sheep
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Denied medical attention, food and shelter many die in these camps every day
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The grass has all been ripped out to eat
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When it rains prisoners find themselves standing up to their knees in mud
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Only a handful of these prisoners bore arms against the Serbian soldiers
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The Serbian government has given orders that special treatment be shown
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To healthy women between seventeen and forty years of age
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Tens of thousands of these young girls and women receiving this special treatment
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Were systematically raped with the sickening plan of impregnating them with Serbian seeds
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And making them bare a stranger, which is then to be taken away
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The world strongly stated "Never Again" after World War II
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This may be the reason why most of the world seems to be ignoring this modern day genocide
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Tuesday May 18th, 1993 ws the date on the newspaper that held the gruesome picture of
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A woman holding a skull that once belonged to a loved one
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This single picture outraged me and opened my eyes to the ethnic cleansing
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I had previously overlooked as just another war?
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It was a slap in the face that I still feel to this day
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A constant reminder of the pain caused by human ignorance and greed
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Almost two years and one song later and nothing's changed, except for the death toll
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How muchlonger will the people sit silently by... as history repeats?
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Two Years And One Song Later
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Aus-Rotten |