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Srebrenica survivor Ahmed Hrustanovic reflects on Ratko Mladic's death

Ahmed Hrustanovic spoke with NPR’s Scott Simon about the death of Ratko Mladic. Hrustanovic survived the Srebrenica Massacre, in which all of his adult male relatives died, according to the source record, which describes the massacre as having been engineered by Mladic.

Srebrenica survivor Ahmed Hrustanovic reflected on the death of Ratko Mladic in an interview with NPR’s Scott Simon.

The source record says all of Hrustanovic’s adult male relatives died in the Srebrenica Massacre and describes the massacre as having been engineered by Mladic.

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