SREBRENICA RECAP, 16TH ANNIVERSARY
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| Child and a man sit on a concrete block outside the former Dutchbat III base of Dutch U.N. soldiers following the mass funeral for 613 newly-identified Srebrenica massacre victims at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| An elderly Bosniak man gestures as he mourns among 600+ caskets at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica, on July 10, 2011. This year's mass burial marked the 16th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica. ____ |
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| An elderly Bosniak man gestures as he mourns among 600+ caskets at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica, on July 10, 2011. This year's mass burial marked the 16th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica. ____ |
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| An elderly Bosniak woman cries over one of the 613 coffins laid out in preparation for mass burrial ceremony of the Srebrenica massacre victims at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial near Srebrenica in Potocari on July 10, 2011. ____ |
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| People gather to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide in the Hague, on July 11, 2011. The signs in the photo read 'The dead of Osat' (L) and 'the dead of Bratunac'. In 1992, Osat was the Bosniak village destroyed by Serbs and Bratunac was Bosniak-majority municipality adjacent to Srebrenica. Serbs committed horrendous massacres against Bosniak civilians -- women, children and elderly -- in both towns at the beginning of Bosnian Genocide. Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Serbs destroyed 296 Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000-30,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys. ____ |
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| Mourners gather to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in the Hague, Netherlands, on July 11, 2011. The signs in the photo read 'The dead of Osat' (L) and 'the dead of Bratunac'. In 1992, Osat was the Bosniak village destroyed by Serbs and Bratunac was Bosniak-majority municipality adjacent to Srebrenica. Serbs committed horrendous massacres against Bosniak civilians -- women, children and elderly -- in both towns at the beginning of Bosnian Genocide. Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Serbs destroyed 296 Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000-30,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys. ____ |
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| Bosnian Muslims pray at the mass funeral for 613 newly-identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide attended by tens of thousands of mourners at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| A Bosniak woman talks to her neice at the fresh grave of cousin among 613 graves of newly-identified Srebrenica massacre victims following a mass funeral attended by tens of thousands of mourners and Bosnian Genocide survivors at the Potocari cemetery and memorial near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| Bosniak women attend the mass funeral for 613 newly-identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide attended by tens of thousands of mourners at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011 in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ____ |
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| A Bosniak family prays at the fresh grave of one of 613 newly-identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre following a mass funeral attended by tens of thousands of mourners at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011 in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina. ____ |
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| Mourners pray at the fresh grave of one of 613 newly-identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during a mass funeral attended by tens of thousands of mourners at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| People take shade from the harsh sun under umbrellas at the mass funeral for 613 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica Genocide attended by tens of thousands of mourners at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. Scorching temperatures in Bosnia have reached 45C degrees. ____ |
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| Bosniaks pray at the mass funeral for 613 newly-identified victims of the Bosnian Genocide victims in Srebrenica attended by tens of thousands of mourners at the Potocari cemetery and memorial on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| Bosniaks burry casket with remains of their relative during a mass burial ceremony for 613 Srebrenica massacre victims, at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| Bosniaks bury the casket with the remains of their relative during a mass burial ceremony for 613 Srebrenica massacre victims in Potocari on July 11, 2011. More than 15,000 people gathered Monday to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide just weeks after the arrest of its alleged mastermind, former Serb general Ratko Mladic. ____ |
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| A Bosniak mourner prays at the fresh grave of one of 613 newly-identified victims of the Bosnian Genocide at Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| A general view of Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica, on July 11, 2011. This year's mass burial, marking the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, reburied 613 newly identified bodies of the massacre victims. ____ |
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| A Bosniak woman mourns and prays at the fresh grave of one of 8,000+ Srebrenica massacre victims at Potocari cemetery near Srebrenica. ____ |
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| A Bosniak woman prays near one of the 613 coffins before a mass burrial ceremony at the Srebrenica Memorial Cemetary in Potocari on July 11, 2011. ____ |
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| A young Bosniak girl prays near one of the 613 coffins before a mass burrial ceremony at the Srebrenica Memorial Cemetary in Potocari on July 11, 2011. ____
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| Bosnian Muslim women cry during a mass burial at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2011. Thousands of grieving Bosniaks on Monday buried more than 600 of newly-identified victims of a notorious Srebrenica Genocide and expressed hope justice would finally be done now that Serb commander Ratko Mladic is on trial. ____ |
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| A Bosniak family mourns a relative among the 613 coffins laid out in preparation for mass burrial ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari on July 11, 2011. _____ |
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| Hatidza Mehmedovic a Bosnian Muslim woman, survivor of the Srebrenica atrocities in 1995, prays in front of the memorial wall with the names of victims of the Bosnian Serb offensive in July 1995 on May 26, 2011 in Potocari near Srebrenica. Hatidza has burried her husband and two sons in the memorial cemetary in Potocari after ten years of searching for their remains amongst those gathered from various mass graves in Eastern Bosnia. Receiving the news on Gen. Ratko Mladic arrest in neighbouring Serbia 'doesn't seem to bring much of a relief' she says. Mladic was arrested upon warrant from International Warcrimes Tribunal in Hague. Mladic was arrested in neighbouring Serbia and is held responsible for atrocities during Bosnia's 1992-95 war including charges of genocide in Srebrenica in the summer of 1995 where approximately 8500 people were killed or still remain missing. ______ |
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| A Bosniak boy searches for a grave before a mass burial at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial and Cemetery in Potocari, near Srebenica July 11, 2011. The bodies of the 613 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the massacre when Bosnian Serb forces slaughtered 8,000 Muslim men and boys and buried them in mass graves in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. ____
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