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Photo-essay: Mourning and reburials mark Srebrenica massacre anniversary
Published on July 14, 2011
Bosnian Muslims unload coffins from trucks in Potocari, near Srebrenica, July 9, 2011. The bodies of 613 recently identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre were buried on July 11 alongside the 4,524 victims of the massacre already interred in the vast cemetery which faces the former UN army base.
The funeral was part of the commemorations of the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by General Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe’s worst crime since World War II.
Thousands of grieving Bosnian Muslims expressed hope that justice would finally be done now that the former Serb commander Ratko Mladic is on trial at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Shadows are reflected on a monument bearing names of victims at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica, July 11, 2011
A Bosnian Muslim woman is seen at a mass burial at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica July 11, 2011
A man is seen in front of coffins prepared for a mass burial at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica, July 11, 2011
Bosnian Muslim men and women are seen through a bus window as they are arrive at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica, July 11, 2011
Bosnian Muslims dig the ground in preparation for a mass burial at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica, July 11, 2011
Bosnian Muslims carry coffins during a mass burial at the Potocari Memorial Centre near Srebrenica, July 11, 2011
Bosnian Muslim women cry as coffins are unloaded from trucks in Potocari near Srebrenica, July 9, 2011
Bosnian Muslim women pray during a night mass commemoration ceremony at the Potocari Memorial Center near Srebrenica, July 10, 2011
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Photographs: ©Boryana Katsarova
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Tags: international court of justice, massacre, photo reportage, potocari, potocari memorial center, ratko mladic, srebrenica, the hague, the netherlands,
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