Genocide--Who is to Blame?

In hindsight, it is appalling that a genocide operation was able to execute over 8,000 Muslims, running smoothly without any outside interference or opposition. It is even more disturbing that this took place a mere 40 years after the Nazi genocide exterminated over 6 million Jewish people. Fifteen years after the Bosnian genocide took place, citizens are still aghast that neither the United Nations nor the Dutch soldiers stationed in Bosnia did anything to prevent the Serbians from stampeding into Bosnia and ruthlessly murdering Bosnian Muslims as though they were poisonous creatures that needed to be wiped out.

Over a decade later, the mourning continues in Bosnia. Citizens have still not recovered from the loss of their loved ones, and many are still irate at the thought that if perhaps someone had interfered in time, their loved ones might still be alive. Why didn't the soldiers or the UN do anything to stop these horrible killings? Are they truly to blame, or was there anything the Bosnian citizens could have done? What really allows a genocide to happen? Can blaming a specific group of people or holding the government accountable fully explain why the genocide took place with almost no resistance? Hopefully, providing answers to these types of questions will help prevent another mass gathering to mourn loved ones whose blood was shed fighting someone else's war.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Thousands-Mourn-on-15th-Anniversary-of-Srebrenica-Massacre-98194039.html