The remains of 465 recently identified victims of the genocide were given a formal burial, bringing the number of victims who have been identified and reburied in the Potocari complex to 2,907.
Croatia's ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Josip Vrbosic, laid a wreath on behalf of the diplomatic corps in the country.
Leading a religious burial ceremony, the head of the Islamic community, reis-ul-ulema Mustafa Ceric, appealed that the victims of the Srebrenica massacre should never be forgotten. "We will not leave the murderers in peace," he said, stressing that a tragedy like the one in Srebrenica should never happen again.
Addressing the memorial ceremony, the Bosniak member of the country's collective presidency, Haris Silajdzic, said that everything should be done so that Bosnia and Herzegovina would not become a country the perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacre wanted it to be. "The world will help us that the crime is not awarded," he said.
The Croat chairman of the presidency, Zeljko Komsic, briefly told reporters at the ceremony that "no justice has been done" in the Srebrenica case, alluding to the lack of care for the town on the part of the local authorities and failure to arrest Bosnian Serb wartime leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who are regarded responsible for the war crimes.
The Serb member of the presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, did not attend.
International High Representative Miroslav Lajcak told reporters in Potocari that the international community would persist in efforts to ensure that all the victims of the massacre were identified. "This is a sacred place for Bosnia and Herzegovina and a symbol of Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said.
Also in attendance was UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, despite protests from an organisation of women from Srebrenica whose loved ones had been killed in the massacre. This organisation is unhappy over the failure to arrest Mladic and Karadzic.
Del Ponte did not take active part in the ceremony nor did she have any official talks during her two-hour visit.