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Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice

FILE - Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal to hear the verdict in his genocide trial, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. It took decades to arrest and try the wartime Bosnian Serb leaders, and three decades since the start of that war more than 7,000 people remain unaccounted-for. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

FILE - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the court room of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. It took decades to arrest and try the wartime Bosnian Serb leaders, and three decades since the start of that war more than 7,000 people remain unaccounted-for. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

FILE - Bosnian Muslim women, and survivors of the Srebrenica massacre carry photos of relatives and display a banner with names of missing relatives, during a peaceful protest walk, in Tuzla, 72 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Sunday, April 12, 2010. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. It took decades to arrest and try the wartime Bosnian Serb leaders, and three decades since the start of that war more than 7,000 people remain unaccounted-for. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

FILE - Djulija Jusic, who lost two sons and thirty three other relatives in the Srebrenica massacre, looks at the names at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. It took decades to arrest and try the wartime Bosnian Serb leaders, and three decades since the start of that war more than 7,000 people remain unaccounted-for. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

FILE - More than 2,000 Muslim and Croatian refugees arrive by ferry in the Croatian town of Rijeka, Croatia, Sunday, May 24, 1992 after fleeing the civil war in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha, File)

FILE - Gravestones are lined up at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic, File)

FILE - Bosnian Muslim man Nezir Jusupovic, walks among 18 coffins of victims exhumed from mass graves during a funeral ceremony in the Bosnian town of Vlasenica, 100 kms Northeast of Sarajevo, on Saturday, April 23, 2011. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

Bosnian Muslim women who lost their relatives looks at mass grave in attempt to identify ther relatives in a mass grave in the village of Cerska near the eastern Bosnian town of Milici , 160 kms northeast of Sarajevo,Bosnia, on Wednesday, Dec. 08, 2010. Regardless of how the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine ends, getting justice for extreme human rights abuses suffered during the conflict will inevitably be a long and painful process for those who survive it to tell the truth about the atrocities they had witnessed and to mourn their dead. Or so say the survivors of Bosnia’s 1992-95 internecine war who had suffered unspeakable horrors in the 1990s conflict and dedicated the ensuing years of their lives to the re-telling and re-living their traumatic experiences in hope of bringing those responsible to justice. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

FILE - A woman reads a religious text at the memorial cemetery, prior to the funeral in Potocari, near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2019. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

FILE - A gravestone in memory of victims of the Srebrenica massacre is seen at the Potocari memorial center near Srebrenica, Bosnia, Thursday, May 26, 2011. Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It’s a long journey to justice