11,541
A tweet by Jeremy Bowen:
April 2012: 11,541 empty chairs in Sarajevo, one each for all the siege's dead. it was the saddest sight. #Karadzic pic.twitter.com/aPLHlyWX0y
— Jeremy Bowen (@BowenBBC) March 24, 2016
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A tweet by Jeremy Bowen:
April 2012: 11,541 empty chairs in Sarajevo, one each for all the siege's dead. it was the saddest sight. #Karadzic pic.twitter.com/aPLHlyWX0y
— Jeremy Bowen (@BowenBBC) March 24, 2016
The true portrait is much more horrible and murderous, but this is a VERY good start.
This can help put reality to a statistic. We can parrot 11,541 for years, and people will just sort of nod with glazed over eyes. This makes it more than just a number…it shows how vast that really is.