Thousands of people are expected to attend the commemorations of the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The remains of 50 more recently identified victims of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II will be buried alongside 6,671 others in the cemetery of the memorial centre on Monday.
The discovery of skeletal remains from the massacre have become rare in recent years, even though some 1,200 people are still missing, according to the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The identification process has been made more difficult as Bosnian Serb soldiers bulldozed and removed remains of victims’ bodies in to mass graves during the war in a bid to conceal the extent of the slaughter.
Mass funerals of those identified are held each July 11, the takeover date by the forces of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who has been jailed for life for war crimes.
