Among the 30 victims whose funeral will be held on July 11, there is a large number of those whose families have been waiting for years to agree to the burial. The reason is the same for everyone – the small number of found remains.
Only two bones of Elvir Salčinović, the youngest victim to be buried this year, were found. And only Elvir’s relative remained to tell the story of the life and death of an entire family.
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.
