Bosnians rebury remains of 400 Srebrenica massacre victims
- 11 years ago
Bosnians pay their final respects as the remains of 409 Srebrenica victims are taken away for proper burial.
Each year on July 11, the anniversary of the 1995 massacre, the bodies of those identified over the past year are buried at a memorial center.
Eighteen years after 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian-Serb forces, remote mass graves are still being found.
On board the trucks carrying the remains, says this woman, is her son - only two of his bones recovered.
Identification is difficult as many of the bodies were broken up by excavators that bulldozed them into mass graves, while others were moved and hidden in secondary locations.
(SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) FATIMA DAUTBASIC, WHO LOST HER SON, FATHER, TWO BROTHERS AND MANY RELATIVES, SAYING:
"All we want to know is where their bodies are, so we can visit their graves. When I visit their graves it takes me more than a week to see all those I lost."
Bosnian Serb army commander R
Each year on July 11, the anniversary of the 1995 massacre, the bodies of those identified over the past year are buried at a memorial center.
Eighteen years after 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered by Bosnian-Serb forces, remote mass graves are still being found.
On board the trucks carrying the remains, says this woman, is her son - only two of his bones recovered.
Identification is difficult as many of the bodies were broken up by excavators that bulldozed them into mass graves, while others were moved and hidden in secondary locations.
(SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) FATIMA DAUTBASIC, WHO LOST HER SON, FATHER, TWO BROTHERS AND MANY RELATIVES, SAYING:
"All we want to know is where their bodies are, so we can visit their graves. When I visit their graves it takes me more than a week to see all those I lost."
Bosnian Serb army commander R