Read This and Weep

"In February 2007, a protected prosecution witness gave evidence at the trial of seven senior Bosnian Serb army officers, charged with the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. The witness had been a driver, delivering food and drink to the executioners as they lined up their victims and sprayed them with gunfire.

And then, suddenly, the shooting stopped. A very young boy emerged from the heap of bodies, covered in blood and mangled flesh. He began walking toward the gunmen, crying for his “Babo” (father). The soldiers lowered their weapons. The commanding officer ordered them to shoot the boy, but they refused, telling him to do it himself. The witness intervened on behalf of the boy: “All of a sudden he took me by the hand. . . . I don’t want any one of you to experience that, . . . the grip, the grip of him on my hand, and I was amazed at his strength.” He took the boy to his van and put some music on, while the gunmen returned to their work.

Later in February 2007, another witness testified at the Srebrenica trial. It was the boy (now a young man) who had crawled out from the pile of corpses."

From a review in NYT of MADAME PROSECUTOR - Confrontations With Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity: A Memoir By Carla Del Pontewith Chuck Sudetic (Amazon)