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SARAJEVO, July 9 (FENA) - A mournful convoy with 35 coffins of the murdered Srebrenica victims, passed today through Sarajevo on its way to the final resting place at the Memorial Center in Potočari.
The victims' families, as well as the numerous citizens of Sarajevo, said prayers and adorned the convoy with flowers, paid tribute to the victims of the last genocide in Europe at the end of the 20th century.
The truck with the remains of the victims stopped in front of the building of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where several thousand citizens of Sarajevo and a large number of members of the families of the killed Srebrenica people gathered to pay their respect.
The painful silence was interrupted only by the grieving of the family members who placed flowers on the truck and said prayers for the souls of the killed.
A woman from Srebrenica, Muška Varnica today sent off another member of her family to their final resting place.
“When Srebrenica fell in the hands of the Serbs, I lost my son at the age of 14, and I am still searching for my husband. In total, 1995, they killed 50 members of my family,” said Varnica in a statement to FENA.
Among the citizens who paid their respect were the candidates for the member of the BiH Presidency from the Party of Democratic Action Šefik Džaferović and the Social Democratic Party Denis Bećirović, FBiH Minister of Displaced Persons and Refugees Edin Ramić, the Mayor of Sarajevo Abdulah Skaka, Raisu-l-ulama Husein Kavazović and many others.
The remains of 35 victims that were murdered during the genocide in July 1995 in the Srebrenica area will be transported to the Potočari Memorial Center, where they will be buried on July 11. Among them are also four minors.
These are boys who were 16 and 17 when they were killed. The youngest among them is Vesid Ibrić. He was 16 years old when he was killed. Feris Mehmedović was also 16 years old.
This year in Potočari, the remains of two seventeen-year-olds will also be buried - Muhamed Alić and Edin Burić. Among the victims are also the remains of a young couple - Nijazija and Remzija Dudić.
Remzija Dudić was 20 years old when she was killed together with her husband, Nijazija Dudić, who was 22 years old. Remzija was sixth-months pregnant at the time when she was killed.
The oldest victim to be buried this year in Potočari is Šahin Halilović, who was 71 years old when he was killed.
Up to date, 6,575 victims of genocide have been buried in Potočari and the first collective funeral was carried out in 2003.
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(FENA) S. R.
