The remains of another 14 victims of the genocide, which took place in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Srebrenitsa in 1995, will be devoted to the Earth.
The memorial ceremony will take place on the memorial complex of Potocari on the anniversary of tragic events.
According to information received from the Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina on issues of people missing, the identified remains of another 14 people discovered years will be reburied this year.
Until today, 6,751 victims of the genocide have been buried at the Memorial cemetery in Potocari. Another 250 people were buried in local cemeteries at the request of their loved ones.
The United Nations General Assembly (UN) announced on July 11 “The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in Srebrenitsa”.
– Genocide in Srebrenitsa
Residents of Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 11 honor the memory of more than 8 thousand Muslims killed in 1995 in the city of Srebrenitsa.
Genocide in Srebrenitsa is considered the largest humanitarian catastrophe in Europe since the Second World War.
Every year on July 11, the remains of the victims of the genocide after the identification procedure of personality indulge in the land in the cemetery in the city of Potocari.
UN Security Council in April 1993 declared a Srebrenitsa zone of security.
However, this did not prevent mass massacre. The city was captured on July 11, 1995 by the army of Bosnian Serbs, led by Ratko Mladic, who later sentenced by the International Tribunal in The Hague to a life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity.
The peaceful Bosnians tried to find protection from the Dutch peacekeepers from the UN, but the latter passed them to the Serbs.
more than 8 thousand Bosnians died in a wooded area, in factories and in warehouses.
The bodies of the killed Bosnians were buried in mass burials.