Bosnian dead re-interred eight years after massacre

ABOUT 15,000 Bosnians gathered yesterday to bury 282 Muslim men killed in the Srebrenica massacre eight years after Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.

Women wept as the coffins, draped in traditional Islamic green fabric, were lowered into fresh graves alongside 600 victims buried in March. The graveyard will become the biggest burial place of Muslims killed in the 1992-‘95 war.

Family members came from across Bosnia and from abroad to bid farewell to their husbands, sons and fathers in the eastern Bosnian field near where Serb soldiers divided women from the men who were to be slaughtered.