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Thousands mark 1995 Srebrenica genocide which is denied by Serbs, fueling ethnic tensions in Bosnia
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A Bosnian muslim woman lays flowers at the grave of her relative, victim of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre, in Potocari, Bosnia, Thursday, July 11, 2024. Thousands gather in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to commemorate the 29th anniversary on Monday of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II. - photo by AP Photo/Armin Durgut
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Thursday for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 genocide which Serb officials continue to deny, fueling ethnic tensions and deep divisions within the war-ravaged state. Twenty-nine years after they were murdered in Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust, the bodies of 13 men and one teenage boy were laid to rest Thursday at a vast and ever-expanding memorial cemetery just outside Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia. They join more than 6,600 massacre victims already reburied there.