(ANSA) - BELGRADE, JULY 9 - Thousands are marching in Bosnia
and Herzegovina since yesterday to commemorate the Bosnian
Muslim killed in the 1995 massacres around the town of
Srebrenica.
Around 6,000 persons, mostly Bosnians but also people from
all over the world, are taking part in the three-days long
"Peace march", since 2005 an annual gathering that leads people
through a 100 kilometers long forest route from Nezuk, near
Tuzla, to the memorial center near Srebrenica, where more than
6,600 victim were buried until now. The route follows a path
that was taken, 24 years ago, by many Bosnian Muslims trying to
escape death from the Bosnian Serb troops commanded by former
general Ratko Mladic. Thousands were ambushed, shot and executed
and then hidden in mass graves all around Srebrenica.
The remains of another 33 victims will be buried at the
Potocari memorial on July 11. Some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim boys and
men were killed in July 1995 in the worst massacre on the
European soil since World War Second, a genocide according to
international tribunals. (ANSA).
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