Allen Eskens on the Power of Research

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Allen Eskens on the Power of Research

Thirty years ago, in July of 1995, the city of Srebrenica fell to Serbian forces that had besieged that city for most of the Bosnian war. When it fell, Serbian soldiers entered the city and executed over eight thousand Muslim men and boys, some as young as ten-years old. I had been thirty-two years old when that headline would have flashed across my television screen, and at the time, it meant nothing to me.  I was a young attorney building a la…