The remains of 50 victims of the July 1995 massacres of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces, including three minors, will be buried at next week’s 27th anniversary commemoration of the genocide.
The Srebrenica Memorial Centre marked the 18th anniversary of its opening by staging an exhibition of personal items that illustrate the suffering of victims and survivors of the 1995 genocide.
The annual commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide will see the burials of 19 more victims identified over the past year, the youngest of whom was 16 when he was killed.
Three more victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide whose remains were discovered in mass graves have been officially identified, including a boy who was 16 when he was killed.
A protected witness at the Goran Saric trial said he saw Bosniaks from Srebrenica being shot and corpses in front of a warehouse in Kravica in the municipality of Bratunac.
The Sense news agency, which covers war crimes trials, opened the new archive of case documents, witness testimonies and forensic evidence at the Srebrenica genocide memorial centre in Potocari.
Defence witness Zoran Kovacevic says, testifying at Ratko Mladics trial at the Hague, that, one day after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995 he did not see abuse of Muslim civilians or separation of men from women and children in Potocari.
At the trial for genocide committed in Srebrenica, a witness for the Prosecution said that he saw the execution of a group of prisoners in July 1995 in Kravica.
Sarajevo prosecutors decided not to ask Belgrade to launch two cases against former Bosnian Serb policemen accused of involvement in the Srebrenica massacres.