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Saturday, July 09, 2011

Monument constructed from shoes to be opened in Istanbul

"Monument constructed from shoes to be opened in Istanbul
A total of 8,372 pairs of shoes, representing the exact number of people killed in this Bosnian town in 1995, have been collected and placed at Taksim Square's Gezi Park.

A monument, built by thousands of pairs of shoes to commemorate Srebrenica massacre victims, will be opened at Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park on Saturday.

Young people of Bosnian descent living in Turkey have initiated a project to commemorate Srebrenica victims and condemn the United Nations on the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre."

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