The bodies will be buried on July 11, the anniversary of the mass killings in 1995, at the Potocari Memorial in eastern Bosnia which commemorates those who died.
Four hundred and sixty-one victims' bodies are currently being kept at the Podrinje Identification Centre in Tuzla, and the head of the centre, Rifat Kesetovic, said that so far, 188 families have agreed to bury their family members on the anniversary.
“It is still early to give estimates concerning the number of burials that will take place on July 11, but we assume that between 300 and 500 killed Srebrenica residents will be buried,” said Kesetovic.
“Identifications are conducted continuously, without a break. We can assume that more victims will have been identified by July,” he said.
A total of 6,194 people who were killed at Srebrenica have been identified in Tuzla so far, and 5,657 of them have been buried in Potocari.
“The number of people who have been identified at the Podrinje Identification Centre is close to 7,000,” Kesetovic said.
Alongside the identification process, the re-exhumation of incomplete bodies is being carried out, Kesetovic explained, because other parts of those bodies have been discovered since their burials.
About 200 re-exhumations have already been conducted, while several hundred are still pending, he added.
More than 7,000 Bosniaks from Srebrenica were killed in the days following the capture of the enclave by the Bosnian Serb army on July 11, 1995.
Several verdicts from the Hague Tribunal, the Bosnian State court and the International Court of Justice have ruled that the killings constituted genocide.
Tuesday 2 April 2013
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/up-to-500-victims-to-be-buried-in-potocari
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