In Potočari today, a funeral was held for 30 identified victims of the genocide in Srebrenica and the 28th anniversary of the genocide was marked, which was committed by the Army of the Republika Srpska, the Ministry of Interior of the RS and paramilitary formations.
Among the 30 identified, there are also four minors, and the youngest victim was 15 years old, the oldest was 65 years old at the time of the murder, and there are also the bodies of father and son Vejsil and Hasib Mujanović.
After noon and Asr prayers, there was a funeral service led by the reisul-ulema of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina Husein Kavazović, attended by thousands of people from all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region and the world, Klix.ba reports.
During the genocide in and around Srebrenica in July 1995, members of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS), under the command of the then president of the RS, Radovan Karadžić, and the commander-in-chief of the VRS, Ratko Mladić, killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys.
The crime in Srebrenica, the largest on European soil after the Second World War, was characterized as genocide before domestic and international courts.
Radovan Karadžić was sentenced before the Mechanism for International Criminal Courts (IMCC), the successor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the laws and customs of war during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ratko Mladić was also found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment before the same court in The Hague.
At least 47 people were sentenced to more than 700 years in prison for crimes committed in the Srebrenica area.
(Photo: I. L./Klix.ba)
