7 hours agoBosnia: Seven victims buried in 30th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)On 11 July, seven victims of Srebrenica genocide will be buried at the Memorial Centre in Potocari. The youngest victims are Senjid Avdiq and Hariz Mujiq, who were 19 years old when they were killed in July 1995. In addition, Rifet Gabeliq, Hasib Omerovic, Sydalija Allic and Amir Mujchiq will be buried. [...]
In addition, Rifet Gabeliq, Hasib Omerovic, Sydalija Allic and Amir Mujchiq will be buried. The oldest victim, and the only woman to be buried this year, is Fata Bektic, who was 67 years old in July 1995.
Earlier, it has been warned that in the footnote of the 30th anniversary of the genocide, over 150 thousand people are expected to participate.
Many delegations have warned of participation in Potocari. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a senior delegation of the US State Department, led by US Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia's taskman, Brandon Hanrahan, as well as the Duke of Edinburgh, Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, the foreign ministers of Sweden and Denmark, and the United Nations Undersecretary for Political Affairs and Peace Construction, reports the REL.
At the Srebrenica Memorial Center - Potocari has been buried until now 6,765 people, while another 250 victims have been buried in other places, according to family wishes.
The Republika Srpska Army forces killed about 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica and the district in July 1995, what has been described as genocide by international and local courts.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2007 found that in July 1995, the UN-protected area of Republika Srpska's military committed genocide.
The same court found Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide and breach the obligation to punish its perpetrators.
The United Nations General Assembly in May last year adopted a resolution with which July 11th is proclaimed International Genocide Memorial Day in Srebrenica.
Before various courts, more than 50 people for genocide and war crimes in Srebrenica have so far been sentenced to more than 700 years in prison.
Among those sentenced to life in prison are Republika Srpska's wartime president and the commander of the army of this entity, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
During the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 100,000 people have been killed, more than 32,000 have disappeared, and the remains of 7,600 persons still being searched for among them, about 1,000 victims found after the genocide in Srebrenica. /Periscope/
