A three day peace march retraced the path taken by thousands of Bosniaks fleeing the massacre, with participants arriving at the memorial cemetery in time for the official memorial service on July 11.
Thousands of people gathered in Bosnia and Herzegovina to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre of 30 years ago — the first recognized case of genocide in Europe since World War Two.
So far about seven thousand victims have been identified and buried, while about one thousand are still missing. The remains of seven victims of the massacre were laid to rest during today’s official commemorations.
Located in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb fighters in 1995. More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were executed in just a few days. Both Bosnia’s Serbs and neighboring Serbia still refuse to acknowledge the massacre as genocide – despite rulings by two UN courts.
0:00 Thousands gathered to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre
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