(10 Jul 2025)
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Potocari, Bosnia - 10 July 2025
1. Various of march particpants arriving at Srebrenica memorial center
2. Families of victims waiting for march participants
3. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Haris Hasanovic, relative of victim being buried tomorrow:
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“You feel like someone is ripping flesh off your body, constantly opening our wounds. They still insult us. They tell us these are not human bones, these are animal bones, that the victims had no relatives. But we will be coming here, constantly, to witness all this, to bring up our children here to know what happened here and never to forget Srebrenica.”
4. Various of people carrying coffins
5. Coffins being laid at burial place
6. Various of families mourning around coffins
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people arrived at the Srebrenica memorial center in Bosnia on Thursday, the eve of the burial of seven more massacre victims on the 30th anniversary of Europe's only acknowledged post-World War II genocide.
The marchers set off on their journey earlier in the week, tracing in reverse the path taken by men and boys of the primarily Muslim Bosniak ethnic group who were killed while fleeing Bosnian Serb forces during the country’s interethnic war in 1995.
More than 8,000 men and boys were executed in just several days after Bosnian Serb fighters overran the small eastern Bosnian town during the final months of the interethnic war in the Balkan country.
Their bodies were dumped in mass graves around Srebrenica and later reburied multiple times to hide evidence of the crimes.
Remains are still being excavated and buried annually on July 11, the anniversary of the start of the killings.
The seven victims that are to be laid to rest on Friday at the cemetery near Srebrenica were identified recently after being recovered in different locations over the past years.
Thousands of people, including a number of foreign government dignitaries, are expected to attend Friday's burial and mark the anniversary at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica.
The conflict in Bosnia left more than 100,000 people killed and millions displaced.
Both Bosnia’s Serbs and neigboring Serbia still refuse to acknowledge that the massacre in Srebrenica was a genocide, despite rulings by two U.N. courts.
Scores of Bosnian Serb political and military officials have been convicted and sentenced in connection with the massacre.
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