Srebrenica survivors retrace their steps

Ten years after thousands were killed trying to evade Bosnian Serb slaughter in Srebrenica, survivors of the infamous death march retraced their steps in reverse today to return to their hometown.

Ten years after thousands were killed trying to evade Bosnian Serb slaughter in Srebrenica, survivors of the infamous death march retraced their steps in reverse today to return to their hometown.

Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed toward the end of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war when Bosnian Serb troops overran the eastern Bosnian enclave. Serbs rounded up the town’s male residents, shot all who couldn’t flee and scattered their remains in mass graves that continue to be found a decade later.

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