Hundreds gather in Sarajevo to pay respects to Srebrenica massacre victims

Newly identified Srebrenica massacre victims are reburied annually on July 11, the day the killing began in 1995, at a vast memorial cemetery outside the eastern town

Remains of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide are interred in Potocari, Bosnia (AP)

Hundreds of people have lined the Bosnian capital’s main street as a truck carrying 30 coffins passed on its way to Srebrenica, where newly identified victims of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Second World War will be buried on the 28th anniversary of the massacre.

As the truck, covered with a huge Bosnian flag, briefly stopped in front of the country’s presidential building in Sarajevo, members of the crowd tucked flowers into the canvas hiding the remains of victims found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis.