Ukraine matters, but so did Bosnia 30 years ago. Where was the outcry then?

A Bosnian Muslim woman reads from a book of prayers among grave stones of her relatives who fell as victims of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Photograph: Elvis Barukcic/AFP/Getty Images

This week, we shall be subjected to further appalling reports from Ukraine: murderous brutality and human suffering and resilience at its receiving end. President Vladimir Putin’s invasion has been condemned as the worst violence in Europe since the Second World War.

But 30 years ago this week, a similar atrocity was detonated in Bosnia-Herzegovina. On 6-7 April three decades ago, as the US and EU recognised the fledgling Bosnian republic, Russian-backed Serbian and Bosnian Serb snipers and artillery gunners opened fire on the capital, Sarajevo, unleashing the worst carnage to blight Europe since the Third Reich – so far; one prays Ukraine will not usurp that awful title, if it hasn’t already.