CASKETS WITH REMAINS OF 307 GENOCIDE VICTIMS DEPART FOR SREBRENICA

VISOKO, Bosnia (July 9,2008) - Hundreds of Bosnians gathered today in the central Bosnian town of Visoko, some 30 kilometres northwest of the capital Sarajevo, to pay respects to the genocide victims from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Caskets with remains of 307 Srebrenica victims will be transported by trucks to the Genocide Memorial Centre in Potocari,near Srebrenica.

On Friday, commemoration and burial will be held marking the 13th anniversary of the genocide in this part of Bosnia in which the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor mass murdered some 10,000 Bosnian civilians,during the 1992-95 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

The trucks with the caskets passed also through Bosnia's capital Sarajevo where the citizens of Sarajevo as well as the country's officials, including the Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic, went on the streets to pay their respects to the genocide victims from Srebrenica.


A Bosnian man cries as he stands near to the coffins containing the remains of 307 bodies of the genocide victims from Srebrenica, leaving the morgue in central Bosnian town of Visoko, on the way to Srebrenica on Wednesday, July 9, 2008.307 bodies of the genocide victims were exumed from mass-graves in Eastern Bosnia and were identified as Bosnian civilians mass murdered by the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor in the Srebrenica area during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.


Bosnian women pray near to the coffins containing the remains of 307 bodies of the genocide victims from Srebrenica, leaving the morgue in central Bosnian town of Visoko, on the way to Srebrenica on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Relatives gather to see the coffins after the 307 bodies of the genocide victims were exumed from mass-graves in Eastern Bosnia. The bodies of the genocide victims were transported to the Genocide Memorial Center in Potocari,near Srebrenica,where they will be buried on 11 July, 2008, when the 13th anniversary of the genocide is to be marked.


Bosnian women hug and cry on July 9, 2008 while seeing off the coffins containing the remains of their family members from the morgue in the central town of Visoko on their way to the eastern town of Srebrenica, where they will be buried at a joint cemetery for all genocide victims from Srebrenica on July 11, 2008. The families bury each year newly-identified genocide victims after they had been dug out of mass graves.The genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor mass murdered some 10,000 Bosnian civilians in Srebrenica in July 1995.

The 307 recently identified genocide victims will be buried next to fewer than 3,000 other genocide victims interred in Potocari since the Genocide Memorial Centre was opened five years ago.

The remains of an unknown number of the genocide victims exhumed from more than 60 mass graves discovered in the Srebrenica area during the last decade, and currently packed in more than 5,000 bags, are still awaiting identification and proper burial.
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