Izvor: N1 televizija, 11.Jul.2018, 09:14 (ažurirano 02.Apr.2020.)
Bosnians mark 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide
Thousands of people gathered at the Potocari memorial centre ub the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to mark the anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide on Wednesday.
Commemoration organizing committee chief Nermin Alivukovic said at the ceremony that Srebrenica has become a planetary symbol of genocide. “We know who committed it and they have been sentenced. The victims of Srebrenica warn us that genocide must never happen to anyone ever again,” he said.
Families >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << and friends of the 35 victims whose remains have been identified by forensic experts over the past year gathered at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in Potocari to bury their loved ones. This year's was the smallest funeral to date at the memorial grounds cemetry which is the final resting place for more than 6,000 victims whose remains have been found and identified throughout the years.
Remains identified by forensic experts are interred once a year at the anniversary commemoration.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian enclave and rounded up the town’s Muslim Bosniaks, separated men from women and little children and systematically executed some 8,000 men and boys. The bodies of the victims were buried in a large number of mass graves. Forensic experts excavated them and identified the bones through DNA analysis before returning the bodies to the families for interrment on July 11 at the Memorial Centre’s cemetery.
The International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice later ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
International and regional courts have sentenced 45 people for what happened in Srebrenica to a total of more than 700 years behind bars.Those who the ICTY sentenced to life imprisonment are Ljubisa Beara, Zdravko Tolimir, and Vujadin Popovic. But the most well known alleged masterminds of what happened in Srebrenica are former Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadzic and ex Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, and both have been sentenced for it but have appealed.
The youngest of the victims to be laid to rest on Wednesday was 16-year-old Vesid Ibric, while the oldest was Sahin Halilovic, 71. Remzija Dudic, 20, who was pregnant at the time of death was among them, and she was be buried next to her 22-year-old husband.
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