Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic

When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle?

Today will be a hard day for Sydneysider Mirela Muratovic, a survivor of the only recognised genocide in Europe since the end of the second world war: Srebrenica.

During the 1990s Bosnian war Srebrenica was designated a United Nations-protected safe area" - a label that came to mean nothing.