Thousands of bereaved people commemorated in Srebrenica the genocide committed thirty years ago in Srebrenica on Friday by the Serbian forces of Bosnia, one of the worst massacres perpetrated on European soil since the Second World War.
The remains of seven victims were buried during the commemorations, including those of two young men aged 19 at the time of the massacre, as well as a 67 -year -old woman.
More than 8000 Muslims, men and adolescents Bosniac, were executed there by Serbian fighters from Bosnia, on July 11, 1995, after taking Srebrenica, then an enclave protected by the United Nations.
The bodies of the victims were then thrown into common pits. To date, 7000 of them have been identified and buried while some 1000 others are still sought.
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A march for memory
The day before commemorations, thousands of “Srebrenica peace walkers”, who traveled more than 100 kilometers in memory of the victims and the massacre survivors, arrived at the commemorative center of Srebrenica-Potocari.
“For thirty years, we have been carrying out pain in our souls. Our children have been innocent in the UN protected area. Europe and the world have observed, silent, the killing of our children,” said Munira Subasic, president of the main association of mothers of Srebrenica, including the husband Hilmo and the Nermin son, 17, were killed.
Back on a massacre in the heart of the Bosnian War
Srebrenica is the bloodiest episode of the Bosnian intercommunity conflict (1992-1995), which ignited the former Yugoslav Republic after the proclamation of its independence, supported by the Bosnians (Muslims) and the Croats (Catholics), but refused by the Serbs (Orthodox).
Seated for more than three years, the Enclave de Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, close to the border with Serbia, however proclaimed “protected” of the United Nations, was attacked in July 1995 by the Serbian forces of Bosnia of General Ratko Mladic.
Trying to hide the severity of the crimes, the Bosnian Serbian authorities had organized corpses travel operations, often shredded by heavy machines and transported to several common “secondary” common pits, according to experts.
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