20,000 remember Srebrenica massacre victims

MORE THAN 20,000 people gathered in Srebrenica yesterday to commemorate Europe’s worst massacre since World War II and to rebury the remains of some of the more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys killed by Serbs nine years ago.

In an emotional ceremony at the site of the Bosnian slaughter, the crowd, including relatives of the 338 victims being reburied, fell on its knees in front of the caskets containing remains exhumed from mass graves.

Most of the mass of people at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre mourned silently. But some women sobbed and wailed as the green coffins were lowered into graves freshly dug next to mounds containing the remains of 998 previously identified victims.