Thousands gather to mark 30th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide

Bosnian Muslim men carry the coffins containing the remains of seven newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide (Darko Bandic/AP)
Bosnian Muslim men carry the coffins containing the remains of seven newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide (Darko Bandic/AP)

Thousands of people from Bosnia and around the world have gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 30th anniversary of a massacre there of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim boys and men.

Seven newly identified victims of the 1995 massacre, including two 19-year-old men, were laid to rest in a collective funeral at a vast cemetery near Srebrenica on Friday, next to more than 6,000 victims already buried there.

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