(9 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST
Visoko - 9 July 2010
1. Wide of people attending prayer ceremony in front of coffins of Srebrenica victims
2. Close-up of people at ceremony
3. Wide women and child in front of truck with coffins
4. Close-up coffins in truck
5. Man praying in front of truck with coffins
6. Man praying, truck with coffins in distance
7. Close woman crying
8. Wide of people at ceremony
9. Close-up woman praying
10. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Ajsa Mustabasic, whose two sons were killed in Srebrenica
"This is so hard for us. We are burying our brothers and fathers, it is so hard."
FILE: Srebrenica, Bosnia - 12 July 1995
10. Mid shot of Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic talking to Muslims (this was the moment Mladic assured them that they would be safe and that nothing would happen to them)
11. Various of woman and children boarding buses
FILE: Cerska, near Srebrenica, Bosnia - 11 July 1996
12. Wide shot of mass graves
13. Mid shot of men digging
14. Close up of skulls
15. Close up of boots
16. Close up of forensic investigator, with skull in background
17. Wide shot of skulls on grave site
Visoko - 9 July 2010
18. Mid of Catholic priest in front of coffin of Catholic Bosnian Croat
19. Wide Catholic priest and Muslim imams at prayer ceremony
20. Women crying
21. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Selveta Alibasic, Srebrenica survivor
"We have to pray to keep our common sense. We have to live our lives knowing what happened here."
21. Various of trucks departing as friends and relatives look on
STORYLINE
Thousands of people in Bosnia on Friday paid their last respects to the bodies of 776 victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, on the 15th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, ahead of their final burial at a memorial centre near Srebrenica this Sunday.
Families, friends and religious leaders said prayers for the victims at the sombre farewell ceremony at the morgue in Visoko, in central Bosnia.
The bodies of 775 Bosnian Muslims and one Catholic Bosnian Croat are to buried during a mass funeral at a cemetery near Srebrenica as the nation marks the anniversary of the massacre, which occurred at the tail end of 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The remains were all recently exhumed from mass graves around Srebrenica.
"This is so hard for us. We are burying our brothers and fathers, it is so hard," said Ajsa Mustabasic, whose two sons were killed during the massacre in July 1995.
Srebrenica was besieged by Serb forces throughout the war.
It had been declared by a safe zone by the United Nations and a number Bosnians had flocked there for protection.
But in July 1995, Serb troops led by General Ratko Mladic overran the enclave.
The outnumbered UN troops never fired a shot.
They watched as Mladic's troops rounded up the population of Srebrenica and took the men away for execution.
It has been described by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the darkest page in UN history.
Their bodies were dumped in a number of mass graves.
After the end of the war and following international pressure to investigate and punish Bosnia's wartime atrocities, Serbs dug up some of the bodies and scattered them in other mass graves.
Every year, more victims' bodies are recovered from mass graves found in the area, identified through DNA analysis, and reburied.
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