(9 Jul 2015) Hundreds of people lined the streets of Sarajevo on Thursday to pay their respects to 136 victims of the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre - the only atrocity in Europe since World War II which has been labelled as genocide by the UN courts.
Mourners watched tearfully as coffins carrying the remains of the newly identified victims were carried by truck down the main street of Sarajevo, briefly stopping in front of the Bosnian presidency.
The victims, whose remains were discovered in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis are being taken to a memorial cemetery in Potocari, outside Srebrenica to be buried on Saturday on the 20th anniversary of the start of the slaughter.
Over 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys were killed when Bosnian Serb forces overrun the United Nations protected enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, in a bloody climax to Bosnia's three and a half year long war that claimed 100,000 lives.
So far close to 7,000 victims have been found and identified and forensic teams continue their work to locate and identify the remaining victims.
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