The remains of 30 victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on Tuesday.
A lorry carrying coffins drove through Sarajevo on its way to Srebrenica, where the newly identified victims of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Second World War will be buried on the 28th anniversary of the massacre.
The lorry, covered by a large Bosnian flag, stopped briefly in front of the country’s presidential building. People tucked flowers into the canvas.
More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys – separated from their wives, mothers and sisters – were chased through woods around Srebrenica and slaughtered in 1995.
The remains of these victims were found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis.
“It is devastatingly sad that hundreds of victims still have not been found and that some people still deny the genocide,” said Ramiza Gandic, who came to pay her respects.
Each year newly identified victims are reinterred on July 11, the day the killings began in 1995, at a vast and expanding memorial cemetery outside Srebrenica.
So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been found and reburied.
A peace march began on Saturday from Nezuk, through the forests in eastern Bosnia, in memory of the victims.
The 100km march retraces the route taken by the Bosniaks who were slaughtered. Almost 4,000 people joined this year’s march, organisers said.
“I come here to remember my brother and my friends, war comrades, who perished here,” said Resid Dervisevic, a massacre survivor who took the route in 1995. “I believe it is my obligation, our obligation to do this, to nurture and guard [our memories].”
Osman Salkic, another Srebrenica survivor, said, “Feelings are mixed when you come here, to this place, when you know how people were lying [dead] here in 1995 and what the situation is like today.”
The Srebrenica killings were carried out during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which came after the break-up of Yugoslavia unleashed nationalistic passions and territorial ambitions. Bosnian Serbs tried to form their own state that would have encompassed Serbia.
Bosnian Serbs fought the country’s two other main ethnic populations – Croats and Bosniaks.
More than 100,000 people died before the war ended in 1995 in a US-brokered peace agreement.
The massacre has been declared a genocide by international and national courts.
But Serb leaders in Bosnia and neighbouring Serbia have tried to play down the massacre.
The wartime Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and former military commander Ratko Mladic were sentenced to life in jail by a UN war crimes court in The Hague for orchestrating the genocide.
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- Jebel Akhdar is a two-hour drive from Muscat airport or a six-hour drive from Dubai. It’s impossible to visit by car unless you have a 4x4. Phone ahead to the hotel to arrange a transfer.
- If you’re driving, make sure your insurance covers Oman.
- By air: Budget airlines Air Arabia, Flydubai and SalamAir offer direct routes to Muscat from the UAE.
- Tourists from the Emirates (UAE nationals not included) must apply for an Omani visa online before arrival at evisa.rop.gov.om. The process typically takes several days.
- Flash floods are probable due to the terrain and a lack of drainage. Always check the weather before venturing into any canyons or other remote areas and identify a plan of escape that includes high ground, shelter and parking where your car won’t be overtaken by sudden downpours.
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