25 years on: more Srebrenica victims laid to rest

Mourners buried their dead and prayers were held at the graveyard and Srebrenica-Potocari memorial centre in the town of Srebrenica on Saturday for victims of the only crime in Europe since World War II that has been declared a genocide.

Typically, thousands of visitors attend the commemoration service and funeral, but this year only a relatively small number of survivors were allowed at the cemetery due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Body parts are still being found in mass graves and are being put together and identified through DNA analysis.

Close to 7,000 of those killed have already been found and identified.

Newly identified victims are buried each year on July 11 _ the anniversary of the day the killing began in 1995 _ in the memorial cemetery.

The Bosnian war pitted the country's three main ethnic factions — Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims — against each other after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

More than 100,000 people were killed in the conflict.