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  • Complete Monster: General Ratko Mladić is a boisterous, preening Glory Hound who plays himself up as a hero, however is proven to be nothing but a vile war criminal. Having besieged the city of Srebrenica until it is rubble and any straggling Bosniak citizens are rounded up and executed, Mladić forces the Dutch peacekeepers into negotiations under threat of bombing their "safe zone" for surviving Srebrenica citizens. Promising safe passage to the citizens, Mladić lures them into a false sense of security, only to reveal his true intentions: separating the men and boys to be mass murdered in gunfire, while the women are abused and assaulted at his soldiers' leisure. Mladić threatens the Dutch military with death if they try to intervene, and his genocidal actions lead to the deaths of over 8,000 innocent Bosniaks, all of which he blames on the Bosniaks for bringing on themselves.
  • Tear Jerker: It's hard to find a moment when the movie it's not (it's about a genocide, after all) but probably the hardest one is when Aida is allowed to remain in the ONU compound but her husband and his two sons are taken away to the Serbs to be killed along other innocent Bosniaks.

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