Remains of 14 Srebrenica victims to be buried 29 years after genocide
Al Jazeera
Thousands of people commemorate the 1995 genocide two months after the UN created an annual day of remembrance.
The remains of 14 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be laid to rest as thousands of people commemorate the anniversary two months after the United Nations established an annual day of remembrance.
Thirteen men and one teenage boy, recently identified through DNA analysis, will be buried on Thursday at a cemetery just outside Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia 29 years after their deaths.
Mirza Basic, a genocide survivor who is burying his 22-year-old brother Midhat this year, told Al Jazeera that the sorrow of discovering his brother’s remains almost three decades later was indescribable.
“When the Missing Persons Institute in Bosnia showed me the photographs of my brother’s clothes and the items he had with him, I experienced such strong flashbacks that I instantly relived all those years of war between 1992 and 1995,” said Basic, who was 15 at the time.
The hardest part was sharing the news with his father and sister, also survivors, he said. All three will attend the funeral.
