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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307 GENOCIDE VICTIMS TO BE BURIED IN SREBRENICA ON JULY 11

SREBRENICA, Bosnia (July 8,2008) – The remains of 307 Bosnian civilians murdered by the genocidal Serbin fascist aggressor in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995 will be buried on July 11 on the anniversary of Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, organisers said yesterday.The funeral is to be held at the site where some 10,000 Bosnian civilians were mass murdered by the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor in July 1995.The bodies of genocide victims were exhumed from mass graves after the end of the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia and have been identified by DNA analysis. The genocide victims were aged between 15 and 75.

Some 2,900 genocide victims from Srebrenica have been buried so far at the Genocide Memorial Centre built in 2003,near Srebrenica but thousands of others are yet to be exhumed and identified. More than 60 mass graves have been uncovered in the area.

Meanwhile, forensic experts have found another mass grave near Srebrenica,the Bosnian national radio reported. The 17m long grave is outside the village of Zeleni Jadar, about 15km south of Srebrenica. Exhumation is to be completed in two weeks.

The site is the eighth of what are known as the secondary graves to be found in Zeleni Jadar, where the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor brought bodies of the genocide victims to cover up the massacre.

Previously exhumed sites contained the remains of several hundred genocide victims. Remains were reburied by bulldozers, so most of the skeletons were incomplete which makes DNA identification process very difficult.


A Bosnian worker inspects coffins containing the bodies of 307 newly-identified genocide victims from Srebrenica for a joint burial near the Bosnian town of Visoko. Each year, bones are matched to a name and buried in a mass funeral on July 11, the anniversary of the genocide committed by the Serbian fascist aggressor,during the 1992-1995 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.


A Bosnian worker at city morgue in the central Bosnian town of Visoko, on Monday, July 7, 2008, sorts paperwork for 307 bodies of the genocide victims prepared to be transported and buried at their final resting place at the Genocide Memorial Centre in Potocari near Srebrenica. All 307 bodies of the genocide victims were excavated from mass graves in eastern Bosnia and identified by teams of Bosnian and international forensic experts. The burial ceremony will be held on 11 July, 2008, in Srebrenica, on the 13th anniversary of the genocide in this part of Bosnia when the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor's mass murdered some 10,000 Bosnian civilians.


A Bosnian woman, a genocide survivor from Srebrenica, reads the names of Bosnian civilians mass murdered by the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor in the former U.N. safe zone of Srebrenica as she visits the Genocide Memorial Centre in Potocari,near Srebrenica.

The Srebrenica massacre has been classified as an act of genocide by the International Court of Justice and the UN war crimes tribunal, both based at The Hague.

The masterminds of the genocide in Bosnia - Serbian war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - are still hiding from justice,protected by the genocidal Serbia.

Friday’s commemoration of the genocide, at which tens of thousands of Bosnians are expected, comes amid warnings of possible violence after a recent UN court ruling.

Last week, a UN appeals court acquitted the former commander of the Bosnian Army units in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica Naser Oric of all war crimes charges including the killings of six genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor's soldiers captured and held by the Bosnian Army in 1992 and 1993 in Srebrenica.
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THOUSANDS MARCH TO HONOR GENOCIDE VICTIMS FROM SREBRENICA

ZVORNIK, Bosnia (July 8,2008) – Some 2,000 Bosnians and others started today a four-day- long walk to Srebrenica in a march to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the genocide committed by the genocidal Serbian fascist aggressor the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica,during the 1992-95 Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

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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