Sarajevo Pays Final Respect
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Fifteen years after the genocide committed in Srebrenica, when more than seven thousand men were killed, 775 victims will be buried in Potocari.
The convoy with the remains of the killed people briefly stopped in front of the Bosnian Presidency building in Sarajevo, where several thousands of citizens and Haris Silajdzic and Zeljko Komsic, Bosniak and Croat member of the Presidency, paid respects to the victims.
According to the list of identified victims, 774 Bosniaks and one Catholic, Rudolf Hren, will be buried in Potocari this year.
Hren, former member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lived in Srebrenica before and during the course of the war. His family said they wanted him to be buried together with other victims in Potocari, with catholic insignia on his grave, while the burial ceremony will be led by a priest.
Following the short break, the convoy continued to Potocari. It is expected to arrive later today.
The Serbian forces occupied the protected zone of Srebrenica in July 1995. They forced women and children to leave the town, capturing and killing most men, more than seven thousand, at various locations.
D.Dz.
