DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

06 July, 2011

SREBRENICA COFFINS

Bosniaks place pictures of their missing or killed relatives on a wall in central Sarajevo during the public screening of Ratko Mladic's Bosnian Genocide trial July 4, 2011.

Bosniaks in central Sarajevo watch the television broadcast of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic's court proceedings on July 4, 2011. Mladic was thrown out of court for disrupting proceedings during the Bosnian Genocide trial at the Hague.

Fikret Alic -- Bosniak survivor of the Omarska concentration camp -- displays a picture of himself taken by international media in 1992 in the camp in 1992. He attended the public screening of the television broadcast of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic's court proceedings July 4, 2011 in Sarajevo.

Workers carry a coffin containing the remains of a victim from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre at a morgue in the central Bosnian town of Visoko July 1, 2011. Tens of thousands of family members, foreign dignitaries and guests are expected to attend a ceremony in Srebrenica on July 11 to mark the 16th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed 8,372 Bosniak men and boys, raped hundreds of women and girls, and expelled 25,000 refugees from the enclave.

Worker Edhem Hajdukovic checks the names on coffins containing the remains of the Bosnian Genocide victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre at a morgue in the central Bosnian town of Visoko July 1, 2011,  in preparation for burial during the 16th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica July 11.


Worker Edhem Hajdukovic checks the names on coffins containing the remains of the Bosnian Genocide victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre at a morgue in the central Bosnian town of Visoko July 1, 2011,  in preparation for burial during the 16th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica July 11.


Bosniak worker Dzevad Beba sorts name tags on one of 613 coffins at city morgue in central-Bosnian town of Visoko, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Coffins of identified Srebrenica genocide victims are being prepared to be transported and buried at their final resting place at memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica. All 613 bodies were excavated from mass graves in Eastern-Bosnia and identified by teams of local and international forensic experts.


Bosniakn worker Hamdo Avdic sorts name tags on one of 613 coffins at city morgue in central-Bosnian town of Visoko, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Coffins of identified Srebrenica genocide victims are being prepared to be transported and buried at their final resting place at memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica. All 613 bodies were excavated from mass graves in Eastern-Bosnia and identified by teams of local and international forensic experts.

Bosniak worker Edib Vraco sorts name tags on one of 613 coffins at city morgue in central-Bosnian town of Visoko, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Coffins of identified Srebrenica genocide victims are being prepared to be transported and buried at their final resting place at memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica. All 613 bodies were excavated from mass graves in Eastern-Bosnia and identified by teams of local and international forensic experts.

Bosnian worker Hamdo Avdic sorts name tags on one of 613 coffins at city morgue in central-Bosnian town of Visoko, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Coffins of identified Srebrenica genocide victims are being prepared to be transported and buried at their final resting place at memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica. All 613 bodies were excavated from mass graves in Eastern-Bosnia and identified by teams of local and international forensic experts.

Adila Suljakovic searches for the grave of her son in the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 3, 2011.

Adila Suljakovic cries at the grave of her son in the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica on July 3, 2011. Tens of thousands of family members, foreign dignitaries and guests are expected to attend the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide on July 11 marking. Nearly 611 identified victims will be buried at a memorial cemetery during the ceremony, their bodies found in some 60 mass graves around the town.

Adila Suljakovic cries at the grave of her son in the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica on July 3, 2011. Tens of thousands of family members, foreign dignitaries and guests are expected to attend the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide on July 11 marking. Nearly 611 identified victims will be buried at a memorial cemetery during the ceremony, their bodies found in some 60 mass graves around the town.

A worker smokes during a break after digging graves ahead of a ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari July 3, 2011.

Workers prepare graves for a ceremony at a memorial centre for Srebrenica massacre victims in Potocari July 3, 2011.

Muslim women pray near a memorial plaque inscribed with the names of Bosniaks killed in the Srebrenica Genocide, in Potocari July 3, 2011. Tens of thousands of family members, foreign dignitaries and guests are expected to attend a ceremony in Srebrenica on July 11 marking the 16th anniversary of the massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed 8,372 Bosniak men and boys. Nearly 611 identified victims will be buried at a memorial cemetery during the ceremony, their bodies found in some 60 mass graves around the town.