OPENING OF NEW MOSQUE IN SLAPOVICI NEAR SREBRENICA

A Bosniak couple sits under a sign announcing the opening of a new mosque in Srebrenica in the mainly Bosniak settlement of Slapovici on the inauguration day of Slapovici's own rebuilt mosque on July 10, 2011. Slapovici is in the Republika Srpska region of eastern Bosnia and is a valley settlement of scattered houses reachable only by a small, dirt road. During the Bosnian Genocide (1992-95) the Bosnian Serb army, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, who is now on trial in The Hague for war crimes, destroyed the mosque, killed, raped or expelled all Bosniaks from Slapovici. Today some of Slapovici's Bosniaks have returned, though others remain scattered in a diaspora in other parts of Bosnia as well as the United States.
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Current and former residents of the mainly Bosniak settlement of Slapovici walk across a small creek to their mosque they helped to rebuild to participate in first prayers on its inauguration day on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Current and former residents of the mainly Bosniak settlement of Slapovici leave the mosque they helped to rebuild after participating in first prayers on its inauguration day on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici, near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Bosniak survivors of the Slapovici Massacre, near Srebrenica, pray in fron tof memorial of men, women and children murdered by Serbian fascists in 1992 and 1993, years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide.
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Bosniak women pray in front of the Slapovici mosque near Srebrenica on July 10, 2011. Traditional water pipe --where Muslims wash themselves before the prayer --  is build in front of the mosque.
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Bosniak men wash their feet before participating in the first prayers at the mosquein the Bosniak village of Slapovici near Srebrenica on July 10, 2011.
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Bosniak man pray in front of the Slapovici mosque near Srebrenica on July 10, 2011.
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Current and former residents of the mainly Bosniak settlement of Slapovici gather around their mosque they helped to rebuild on its inauguration day on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Slapovici is in the Republika Srpska region of eastern Bosnia and is a valley settlement of scattered houses reachable only by a small, dirt road. During the Bosnian Genocide (1992-1995) the Bosnian Serb army, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, destroyed the mosque, killed or expelled all Bosniaks from Slapovici. Today some of Slapovici's Bosniaks have returned, though others remain scattered in a diaspora in other parts of Bosnia as well as the United States.
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Current and former residents of the mainly Bosniak settlement of Slapovici walk to their newly-rebuilt mosque to participate in first prayers on its inauguration day as an imam leads the call to prayer on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Elderly Bosniak women and a young Bosniak girl sit in front of the newly-rebuilt mosque in the village of Slapovici near Srebrenica on July 10, 2011.
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Enisa Begic (R), 22, Bosniak girl, looks back to her grandmother Tima Begic, who is uncertain of her age but her family says is at least 80, in Tima's house where Enisa was born while visiting her during the inauguration day of their settlement of Slapovici's rebuilt mosque on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Enisa and her entire family fled Slapovici during the Bosnian Genocide of 1992-1995, and she says many male members of her extended family were murdered by Serbian soldiers. Enisa, her parents and her sisters later emigrated to the United States, and today she is studying oral hygiene at university in Newport News, Virginia. Today some of Slapovici's Bosniaks have returned, including Tima, though others remain scattered in a diaspora in other parts of Bosnia as well as the United States. Enisa says she and her family would like to return too but she is uncertain of finding a job in the weak Bosnia economy.
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An elderly Bosniak woman Tima Begic, who is uncertain of her age but her family says is at least 80, attends the inauguration of the settlement of Slapovici's rebuilt mosque on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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 Enisa Begic (L), 22, Bosniak girl, greets a cousin while visiting the settlement of Slapovici where she was born during the inauguration day of Slapovici's rebuilt mosque on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Enisa and her entire family fled Slapovici during the Bosnian Genocide of 1992-1995, and she says many male members of her extended family were murdered by Serbian soldiers. Enisa, her parents and her sisters later emigrated to the United States, and today she is studying oral hygiene at university in Newport News, Virginia. 
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Tima Begic (L), an elderly Bosniak woman who is uncertain of her age but her family says is at least 80, attends the inauguration of the settlement of Slapovici's rebuilt mosque on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Current and former residents of the mainly Muslim settlement of Slapovici participate in festivities to inaugurate their mosque they helped to rebuild on July 10, 2011 in Slapovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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