Thousands of people marched through eastern Bosnia in memory of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II. The annual 100km march retraces the route of thousands of Bosniak men and boys killed by Bosnian Serb forces during the 1992-95 war. The march is part of several events preceding the actual date and commemorating the massacre on July 11. - Nearly 4,000 people joined this year's march, according to the organizers.
- The Bosnian conflict erupted in 1992, when the former Yugoslavia broke up and Bosnian Serbs launched a rebellion and a land grab to form their own state and join Serbia.
- More than 100,000 people died before the conflict ended in 1995.
- In July 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniak males were separated by Serb troops from their wives, mothers, and sisters, chased through woods around Srebrenica, and killed.
- So far, the remains of more than 6,600 people have been found and buried at a vast and ever-expanding memorial cemetery outside Srebrenica.
The United Nations war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, has sentenced to life both the wartime Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and the former military commander Ratko Mladic for orchestrating the genocide. - The remains of 30 more victims will be put to rest on Tuesday as remains of newly identified victims are continuously being unearthed from mass graves and reburied each year on July 11, the day the killing began in 1995.
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