Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković will travel to Srebrenica on July 11 to take part in the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the genocide.
Plenković will be among the speakers at the commemoration, which is expected to be attended by a number of European officials, including the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, numerous ministers of foreign affairs and other officials of European countries.
The president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Courts (MICT), the successor of the Hague Court, Gabriela Gati Santana, and chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz will also be there.
With a commemoration that will once again remind of the scale of the biggest war crime committed on European soil after the Second World War, when more than eight thousand Bosniaks, mostly men and boys, were killed after the fall of the Srebrenica enclave that was under the protection of the United Nations in July 1995, this July 11, seven victims of genocide whose remains were found in mass graves after the war will be buried.
As confirmed by the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina (INO), the remains of Senajid Avdić and Hariz Mujić, who were 19 years old when they were killed, will be buried.
The oldest victim to be buried is Fata Bektić, who was 67 years old, Hina reports.
The skeletons of the victims to be buried were found in parts because the mass graves were dug up several times in attempts to cover up the traces of the crime.
The morgue in Tuzla stores parts of the skeletons of 45 victims whose identities were determined by comparing DNA samples obtained from the blood of surviving relatives, but the families have not yet given their consent for their burial, hoping that the remains will be completed after additional exhumations, or the discovery of the remaining hidden mass graves.
In Potočari, where the Srebrenica Memorial Center is located, the remains of more than 6,700 genocide victims have been buried so far, and the bodies of at least a thousand of those killed are still being searched for.
