Peace march held in memory of Srebrenica massacre victims

Bosnian Muslim men pray before the start of the march (Armin Durgut/AP)

A solemn peace march is taking place through forests in eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Second World War.

The annual 60-mile march retraces a route taken by thousands of men and boys from the Bosniak ethnic group, made up primarily of Muslims, who were slaughtered as they tried to flee Srebrenica after it was captured by Bosnian Serb forces late in the 1992-95 war.