Appeals to justice mark the anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
Nedim Hasic Sarajevo, July 11 .- The call for reconciliation in the Balkans, to never repeat war crimes, and justice today marked the commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.
"The judicial institutions can not return to the dead, but human justice can mitigate the hurt and pain and help in the process for healing. Therefore, the perpetrators should be brought, tera gold, to justice," he declared in a memorial ceremony Yves Leterme, Prime Minister of Belgium, a country which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU).
In the same line Haris Silajdzic, leader of the triad Time Bosnian presidency, said that "only justice and truth" can calm "the conscience of humanity tarnished by Srebrenica."
Both was rrring to the, cheap darkfall gold, events of July 11, 1995, when some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed when Bosnian Serb troops of General Ratko Mladic captured Srebrenica enclave, then the UN protected area, a few months after the end the war in Bosnia (1992-1995).
The killing was described as genocide by international judicial institutions.
Mladic, former Bosnian Serb military leader and one of the main accused, tera gold, of genocide in Srebrenica, is still fugitives from international justice.
Several former Bosnian Serb officers and politicians were convicted of these facts and others are being processed, including its former president Radovan Karadzic, arrested in Belgrade two years ago.
The remains of 775 identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre were buried today in the Potocari memorial, near the former eastern Bosnian enclave.
Despite the sweltering heat of 35 degrees Celsius, more than 60,000 people came to Potocari to attend the ceremony, while many others failed to reach the site through the narrow roads in eastern Bosnia.
Among others, the event was attended by senior representative of the international community in Bosnia, Valentin Inzco, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, Torbjorn Jagland, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Also attended by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Serbia, Boris Tadic, and senior officials from other neighboring countries, as well as the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, Charles Engclish, who conveyed a message from U.S. president, Barack Obama.
"The horror of Srebrenica is a blot on the collective conscience of the world. Our obligation is to remember what happened and prevent crimes from happening in the future," says the message of Obama.
Turkish prime minister also asked in his speech that "never again, for the future, repeat Srebrenica."
"Srebrenica is not only the place that is mentioned because the humanity ceased to exist, the crime was committed. We can say that is the place to be born a new future and a new honor," declared Erdogan.
He welcomed the presence today of President Tadic Potocari and a declaration condemning the Srebrenica massacre a few months ago approved by the Parliament of Serbia, as an important contribution to reconciliation in the Balkans.
Before the start of the ceremony,Tadic placed a wreath at the memorial and promised they will do everything possible to ensure that Mladic is captured and extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The capture of this fugitive is a condition imposed by the EU to Serbia, where the accused allegedly hiding "on the road from Belgrade towards EU accession.
The funeral of the victims today, including four teenagers, was held according to the Islamic rite and the maximum trade chief of the Muslim community in Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric.
As the only Catholic victim buried today, Rudolf Hren, gave the monk Marin Mass Antunovic.
So far, have been buried in the cemetery of 4524 Potocari memorial of the massacre victims identified through DNA analysis, after which their corpses were exhumed from different mass graves in eastern Bosnia.
The European Parliament on 11 July proclaim day of commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide throughout the EU. Nh-Sn/wr/acm