BORIS TADIC ATTENDS 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SREBRENICA GENOCIDE

"I wish to welcome you, we are receiving you in peace," Kada Hotic, a representative of the Srebrenica widows, told Serbia's president Boris Tadic while he held her hands. Some in the crowd yelled "Bravo, Boris!"

#1. Serbia's President Boris Tadic wipes tears during a joint burial in the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial on July 11, 2010.

#2. Serbian President Boris Tadic (R) lays flowers and pays his respect on July 11, 2010 during a ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari to commemorate more than 8,000 Bosniaks killed by Serbs and bury 775 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed, some 30,000 forcibly expelled and many women and girls brutally raped, in the days following the fall of the Srebrenica enclave, designated a UN-safe area, by Bosnian Serb troops on July 11, 1995. The victims were shot and dumped in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly in more than 70 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence. So far, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) identified 6,481 victims of the July 1995 genocide through DNA method.

#3. Serbian President Boris Tadic (R) lays flowers and pays his respect on July 11, 2010 during a ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari to commemorate more than 8,000 Bosniaks killed by Serbs and bury 775 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed, some 30,000 forcibly expelled and many women and girls brutally raped, in the days following the fall of the Srebrenica enclave, designated a UN-safe area, by Bosnian Serb troops on July 11, 1995. The victims were shot and dumped in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly in more than 70 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence. So far, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) identified 6,481 victims of the July 1995 genocide through DNA method.

#4. Serbian President Boris Tadic weeps as he passes coffins of Srebrenica genocide victims, in Potocari, Bosnia, Sunday, July 11, 2010. Thousands gathered in the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial for the mass burial of 775 bodies marking the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

#5. Montenegro's President Filip Vujanovic (L-R), Serbia's President Boris Tadic, Bosniak member of Bosnia and Herzegovina's tripartite presidency Haris Silajdzic and Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan attend a joint burial of 775 Srebrenica genocide victims in Potocari July 11, 2010.

#6. Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman, right, pays his respects to Srebrenica victims on Sunday, July 11, 2010. Thousands gathered in the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial to bury 775 massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime in Europe since the Nazi era.

#7. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lays flowers near the marble stone monument at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari to remember more than 8,000 Srebrenica victims on 11 July 2010.

#8. Bernard Kouchner, center, the French Foreign Minister, pays his respect to more than 8,000 Srebrenica victims at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari on 11 July 2010, on occasion of the 15th anniversary of genocide.

#9. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd L), the chairman of the Bosnian Presidency, Haris Silajdzic (2nd R) and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) pray on July 11, 2010 in front of coffins of some of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during a ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari to commemorate more than 8,000 Bosniaks killed by Serbs and bury 775 newly identified victims. The victims were shot and dumped in mass graves, then reburied haphazardly in more than 80 sites in a bid to cover up the evidence.