Balkans | The coffins of the 30 victims who were buried on the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide have been prepared

On the 28th anniversary of the genocide that took place in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in July 1995 in which more than 8 thousand Bosnian civilians were brutally murdered, the coffins of 30 victims wrapped in green cloth were prepared. Funeral.

On July 11, the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, which is considered Europe’s greatest human tragedy after World War II, another 30 victims of the genocide will be buried at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery.

Dzinan Sabanović, Director of the Visoko City Cemetery, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the coffins of the victims, who have been kept in the Visoko City Cemetery and whose identifications have been completed, will be sent to Srebrenica on the morning of July 9.

Noting that a father and his son were among the funerals this year, Sabanović said that the youngest victim was Elvir Salcinović who was 15 years old when he was killed, and the oldest victim was Nazir Muminović, who was 65 years old when he was killed.

Meanwhile, the convoy carrying coffins wrapped in ample green clothes will leave Visoko on Sunday and set out from the capital, Sarajevo, for Srebrenica for prayers and ceremonies.

Twenty-eighth anniversary of the genocide

Srebrenica, declared a “safe zone” by the United Nations during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was occupied on July 11, 1995 by the Serbian forces of the Serbian commander Ratko Mladic.

As for the Bosnian civilians who sought refuge with Dutch soldiers inside the United Nations after the occupation, they were handed over to the Serbs.

8,372 Bosniaks who were put on buses and trucks were brutally murdered in the forest areas, factories and warehouses where they were transported. The bodies of the dead were buried in various mass graves across the country.

After the war, the victims whose bodies were found were buried in mass graves in an effort to find the missing in a ceremony held at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery on 11 July each year after their identification.

Potocari Memorial Cemetery contains the graves of 6,721 genocide victims.

AA