775 Srebrenica victims buried to mark 15th anniversary
More than 750 newly identified victims killed during the Srebrenica massacre have been buried to mark the 15th anniversary of the atrocity.
The 775 coffins were laid to rest at the Potocari cemetery, outside Srebrenica.
An army led by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic seized Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, and went on a week-long killing spree as UN troops protecting the town stepped aside.
Around 8,000 Muslims were killed in what is now seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. Those who tried to escape were hunted down and killed. Mladic remains at large.
After the massacre, Serbs dumped the victims' bodies into mass graves. They were later dug out with bulldozers and moved to smaller graves in an attempt to cover up the crime.
More than 3,700 victims have been buried in the special memorial graveyard after being unearthed from hundreds of mass graves and identified.
Authorities are still finding human remains in unmarked graves, such as the one located in June in the nearby Zalazje village, where forensic experts have so far found the remains of six victims.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has indicted Mladic and his political chief Radovan Karadzic for genocide in Srebrenica. Karadzic is on trial but denies all counts of the indictment, including Srebrenica.
Mladic is believed to be hiding in Serbia. Failure to arrest him has hindered Serbia's progress towards EU membership.
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dan bantahlah mereka dengan cara yang lebih baik. -Qs. 16 an-Nahl :125
Berilah mereka pelajaran, dan katakanlah kepada mereka perkataan yang berbekas pada jiwa mereka. -Qs. 4 an-Nisa' : 63
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