Barack Obama actually said...

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

With these new designations, President Obama will have used the Antiquities Act to establish or expand 19 national monuments.

Only by holding the perpetrators of the genocide to account can we offer some measure of justice to help heal their loved ones.

We must look back at Srebrenica with clear eyes, commemorate the tragedy, and learn from it.