SREBRENICA MASSACRE, 282 VICTIMS BURIED IN POTOCARI SREBRENICA, July 11 (Hina) - The remains of 282 Bosnian Muslims, killed by Serb forces after they overran the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995, were buried
at the memorial cemetery of Potocari outside Srebrenica on Friday.
SREBRENICA, July 11 (Hina) - The remains of 282 Bosnian Muslims,
killed by Serb forces after they overran the Muslim enclave of
Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995, were buried at the
memorial cemetery of Potocari outside Srebrenica on Friday. #L#
The funeral was attended by some 10,000 Srebrenica residents who
survived the 1995 massacre and other Bosnian Muslims from eastern
Bosnia. Present at Friday's commemoration were Bosnia's top
officials and foreign ambassadors accredited to that country,
including for the first time the ambassador of Serbia-Montenegro,
Stanimir Vukicevic. Bosnian Serb entity Premier Dragan Mikerevic
was there, too.
The head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mustafa
Efendi Ceric, who administered the religious rite, recalled that
eight years today over 10,000 Bosniaks in Srebrenica were brutally
killed.
"That date is recorded in the history of the greatest shames of
mankind that failed to prevent the killing of innocent Srebrenica
residents," Ceric said.
He added that today this tragedy was even graver given that the two
most responsible men for the mass killing - Radovan Karadzic and
Ratko Mladic - were still at large.
This March, the bodies of the first 600 identified victims were
buried in the memorial centre of Potocari, which used to be the UN's
Dutch base in 1995 when the enclave of Srebrenica was regarded as a
UN safe haven.
Funerals of other identified victims have been announced for this
autumn. The unearthing of remains from mass graves have been
carried out for seven years. So far over 30 sites have been found out
as mass graves of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica tragedy.
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