The "March of Death - Path of Freedom" started from the village of Nezuk, near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, and was due to end in the Genocide Memorial Centre in Potocari on Friday, July 11, the actual day of the anniversary of the genocide in this part of Bosnia.
The marchers were to attend a funeral on Friday for more than 300 recently identified genocide victims.
The group includes people from all over Bosnia, but also a group of Swiss parliamentarians and some 50 members of different non-governmental organizations.
US Ambassador to Bosnia Charles English announced he would also join the march.
Bosnians carrying Bosnian state flags at a start point of a four-day march to Srebrenica, in the village of Nezuk near Zvornik, 120 kms northeast of Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Thousands of Bosnians began a four-day march along the route the genocide survivors used 13 years ago to to reach the free territories under the control of the Bosnian Army. On July 11, a mass burial for more then 300 identified genocide victims from srebrenica exhumed from numerous mass graves in a recent years will be held in the Genocide Memorial Center of Potocari near Srebrenica marking 13 years since the genocide committed by the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor in this part of Bosnia.
The 100-kilometre walk will include the hills and woods of eastern Bosnia, where thousands of Bosnian civilians were mass murdered by the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor while trying to reach the free territories in the country's north.
The genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor mass murdered up to 10,000 Bosnian civilians in Srebrenica in July 1995.
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