17 ANNIVERSARY OF THE SREBRENICA GENOCIDE,

• 8,372 victims of the Srebrenica Genocide Honored
• 520 Newly DNA-identified victims laid to rest
• Holocaust survivor Rabbi Arthur Schneier:"Men and boys alike were massacred in an act of Genocide." (video, scroll to the bottom)

PHOTO #1: New York Rabbi Arthur Schneier (L), a Holocaust survivor, delivers a speech during a mass burial ceremony at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 11, 2012, next to Bosnian top Islamic cleric Mustafa Ceric, with whom he has been working closely for more than 20 years within the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF). "Men and boys alike were massacred in an act of Genocide," said Rabbi Schneier. Tens of thousands of people arrived in Potocari on July 11 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the moment the UN-protected enclave fell to Bosnian Serb troops. The remains of 520 people were be buried alongside the 5,137 victims of the Genocide already burried in the vast cemetery which faces the former UN army base. Some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in just a few days after the eastern town under UN protection was captured by Bosnian Serb forces 17 years ago.

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PHOTO #2: New York Rabbi Arthur Schneier (2nd L), a Holocaust survivor, places flowers at a monument commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, during a mass burial ceremony at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Cemetery on July 11, 2012.

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PHOTO #3: New York Rabbi Arthur Schneier (2nd L), a Holocaust survivor, stands in front of a monument commemorating the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, during a mass burial ceremony at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Cemetery on July 11, 2012.

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PHOTO #4: Coffins of 520 newly identified Srebrenica Genocide victims on display at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, some 160 kilometers east of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. 

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PHOTO #4: A Bosnian Muslim woman stands in front of 520 caskets stocked in an abandoned factory hangar, in preparation for a mass burrial ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Cemetary, in Potocari on July 10, 2012.

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PHOTO #5: A Bosniak boy searches new open graves for the coffin of his relative, which was prepared for a mass burial at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica July 10, 2012. The bodies of 520 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the Genocide when Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic slaughtered 8,000 Bosniak men and boys and buried them in mass graves, in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.

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PHOTO #6: Bosniak women dressed in traditional Muslim clothes sit near a new open grave which was prepared for the coffin of their relative, which was prepared for a mass burial at the Memorial Center in Potocari, near Srebrenica July 10, 2012.

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PHOTO #7: A Bosniak woman weeps near the grave of her relative among the graves of Srebrenica Genocide victims at the Memorial Cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica, 160 kms northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Thousands gathered in the cemetery for the mass burial of 520 bodies, marking the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

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PHOTO #8: Two Bosniak women sit among 520 body caskets laid out in preparation for a mass burial of Srebrenica massacre victims during the 17th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica on July 11, 2012. 

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PHOTO #9: Bosniak women cry over the remains of their relatives among 520 newly identified body caskets laid out in preparation for mass burial of Srebrenica Genocide victims during the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on July 11, 2012.

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PHOTO #10: Bosniaks carry caskets with remains of their relatives during a mass burial ceremony for the 520 Srebrenica massacre victims, at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial on July 11, 2012. 

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PHOTO #11: Bosniak men carry coffins of their relatives during a mass funeral for Srebrenica massacre victims, at Memorial Cemetery Potocari, 160 kms northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Thousands gathered in the cemetery for the mass burial of 520 bodies, marking the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide.

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PHOTO #12: Mass funeral of 520 newly identified Srebrenica massacre victims on the 17the anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, July 11, 2012.

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PHOTO #13: Bosniaks take part in a mass burial ceremony at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari on July 11, 2012. Tens of thousands of people arrived in Potocari on July 11 to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. 

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PHOTO #14: Bosniak men carry the coffin of their relative during mass funeral for Srebrenica victims, at the Bosnian Genocide Memorial Cemetery in Potocari, near Srebrenica,160 kms northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Thousands gathered in the cemetery for the mass burial of 520 bodies, marking the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide.

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PHOTO #15: Bosniaks carry coffins of 520 newly identified Srebrenica massacre victims for burial during the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide in Potocari, near Srebrenica, on July 11, 2012.


VIDEO: Keynote speech of the Jewish Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, can be viewed at this link (click here and then scroll to the bottom of the page to view video)