Bosnians to bury only 175 of nearly 700 newly identified Srebrenica massacre victims
Published December 12, 2015
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A Bosnian Muslim woman searches for the coffin of her relative, in the Memorial center in Potocari, 200 kms northeast of Sarajevo, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Hundreds of people turned out in Sarajevo's main street to pay their respects to 175 victims of the Srebrenica massacre — Europe's worst since World War II — as a truck carried their coffins to a final resting place. The remains of the men and boys, found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis, will be buried in Srebrenica on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the massacre, next to 6,066 previously found victims. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) (The Associated Press)
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Ema Hasanovic, 5, a young Bosnian Muslim girl, pays her respects near to the coffin of her uncle, in the Memorial center in Potocari, 200 kms northeast of Sarajevo, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Hundreds of people turned out in Sarajevo's main street to pay their respects to 175 victims of the Srebrenica massacre — Europe's worst since World War II — as a truck carried their coffins to a final resting place. The remains of the men and boys, found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis, will be buried in Srebrenica on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the massacre, next to 6,066 previously found victims. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) (The Associated Press)
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FILE - This is a Thursday, July 11, 2013 file photo of a Bosnian woman as she cries near the coffin of her relative during a funeral ceremony at the memorial center in Potocari, near Srebrenica, 160 kms east of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2013. People from around Bosnia and abroad have begun arriving in Srebrenica Thursday to commemorate 18th anniversary of the 1995 massacre and rebury recently identified victims exhumed from mass graves. Hundreds of people lined Sarajevo’s main street on Wednesday July 9, 2014 to pay their respects as coffins carrying the remains of 175 victims of Europe's worst massacre since World War II passed by. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File) (The Associated Press)
The families of more than 500 victims of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia have refused to bury them in a mass funeral on the anniversary of the killings because only one or two of their bones have been found.
Kathryne Bomberger, head of the DNA identification project, said Thursday nearly 700 new victims have been identified in the past year, but only 175 of them will be buried on Friday,
More than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed when Serb forces overran the town of Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, and their remains are being gradually found in mass graves and buried every July 11.
But the perpetrators of Europe's worst massacre since World War II mixed up the bones when they reburied the victims, to hide the crimes.
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