Bosnians mourn Srebrenica massacre victims

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina,  - Some 30,000 Muslims from across Bosnia gathered Friday to remember the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and bury the remains of more than 300 newly-identified victims.

The sombre funeral ceremony for the 308 Muslims, who were among 8,000 killed in Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, was held at a memorial site just outside the eastern town.

The remains of the victims, aged between 15 and 84, were exhumed from mass graves after the end of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war and identified by DNA analysis.

After leading mourners in prayer, Bosnia’s Islamic leader Mustafa Ceric called on the European parliament to proclaim July 11 a day of mourning across the continent.

“On that day in all capitals, events should be organised at which nations of Europe would make a vow to each other that genocide and the Holocaust will never happen again,” Ceric said in a speech.

In Belgrade, President Boris Tadic vowed Serbia’s new West-leaning government would do its utmost to “arrest” former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, still wanted on genocide charges in relation to the massacre.