Barack Obama: “Only by fully acknowledging the past can we achieve a future of true…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2015

Only by fully acknowledging the past can we achieve a future of true and lasting reconciliation.

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Statement on the 20th Anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide

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