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That attitude angers Muslim Bosniaks. But Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier of the Park East Synagogue in New York, who came to attend the funeral in solidarity with the victim's families, told The Associated Press that Bosnian witnesses should simply continue testifying and keeping a record. Schneier said he knows from dealing with Holocaust deniers that "to the advocates of a revisionist history, you cannot even present the facts, because they will not accept them." The rabbi urged the world to stand up in the face of injustice, "hear the cry of the oppressed and to respond. " "Silence on the part of the international community ... only strengthens the perpetrators," he said. In Washington, President Barack Obama issued a statement honoring the memory of the "8,000 innocent men and boys" who were massacred in Srebrenica 17 years ago. "The name Srebrenica will forever be associated with some of the darkest acts of the 20th century," Obama said. Obama said the U.S. "rejects efforts to distort the scope of this atrocity, rationalize the motivations behind it, blame the victims, and deny the indisputable fact that it was genocide."
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