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Remains of 409 Bosnian war victims to be buried

2013-07-11 95 Dailymotion

Thousands of mourners flocked to a memorial just outside the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica on Thursday to bury 409 newly-identified victims, recovered and identified 18 years after Europe's worst massacre since World War Two.<br/> <br />Prayers echoed from loudspeakers as relatives and friends searched for names on cemetery maps and wooden grave markers that will be replaced with white marble tombstones.<br/> <br />Among those to be buried were 44 boys, aged between 14 and 18, and a baby girl who died in the United Nations compound, three days after birth. Their bodies were dug out from nameless death pits and recently identified through DNA analysis.<br/> <br />Srebrenica was under the protection of the U.N. during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war but lightly armed Dutch troops had been swept aside by the Bosnian Serb troops, commanded by general Ratko Mladic, who overran the town on July 11, 1995.<br/> <br />Mladic and his political chief Radovan Karadzic are on trial before the International War Crimes T

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