DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

09 July, 2010

COFFINS ARRIVE TO SREBRENICA GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

#1. A Bosniak woman touches memorial stones at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010. Bosnians will mark on 11 July 2010, 15 years since the darkest episode of the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia, the Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniaks by Serbs. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the commemoration, including Serbian President Boris Tadic, who also attended the 10th anniversary ceremony, his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


#2. Workers dig graves in preparation for the mass burial at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica on 9 July 2010. This year's mass burial of the remains of 775 DNA-identified massacre victims marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in the massacre, many women were brutally raped, and 30,000 Bosnian Muslims were expelled from the enclave.


#3. Bosnian women cry beside a truck loaded with the coffins of 775 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in front of the Presidency Building in Sarajevo July 9, 2010. Each year, bones are matched to a name and buried in a mass funeral on July 11. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.


#4. A Bosnian woman cries beside trucks loaded with the coffins of 775 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in front of the Presidency Building in Sarajevo July 9, 2010.


#5. A Bosnian Muslim woman looks at the remains of victims of the Srebrenica genocide brought in a truck in front of the local mortuary in Visoko on July 9, 2010.


#6. Bosnian women cry as trucks loaded with the coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre arrived at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.


#7. Bosniak women react as trucks loaded with the coffins of newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre arrived at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.


#8. Bosniak men carry a coffin of a newly identified victim of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during preparation for mass burial at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.


#9. A Bosnian woman cries at the grave of a relative in the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.


#10. Workers dig graves in preparation for the mass burial at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.


#11. Bosnian Muslim women comfort each other among coffins of Srebrenica victims displayed at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potocari near Srebrenica, 120 kms northeast of Sarajevo on Friday, July 9, 2010.


#12. A Bosnian Muslim woman holds the casket containing the remains of her son among coffins of Srebrenica victims displayed at the memorial center at Potocari near Srebrenica, 120 kms northeast of Sarajevo on Friday, July 9, 2010.


#13. A Bosniak woman mourns over the coffin of her relative during preparations for mass burial at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.


#14. Bosnian Muslim woman touches a coffin, among the many coffins of Srebrenica victims displayed at Memorial center of Potocari near Srebrenica, 120 kms northeast of Sarajevo on Friday, July 9, 2010.


#15. A Bosnian woman mourns over the cofin of her relative during preparation for mass burial at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 9, 2010.