Thousands are gathering in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica to commemorate Europe’s worst atrocity since the Second World War.<br /><br />The remains of 71 recently identified victims were laid to rest at Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre and Cemetery, as mourners observed the twenty-second anniversary of the massacre.<br /><br />22 years ago, the worst atrocity on European soil since World War Two took place. Let’s unite against hatred today to honour the victims. pic.twitter.com/NokW4RfE9B— Remember Srebrenica (@SrebrenicaUK) July 11, 2017<br /><br /><br />Adela Efendic, the daughter of man killed in Srebrenica said: “Today I came here to bury the body of my father. He was killed when I was less than a month old. I really can’t explain how it feels when you have not even met your father, you kind of have a picture of his character in your head. You only have the imagination of your father, that’s all I have.”<br /><br />As many as 8,000 Muslims were murdered at the hands of Bosnian Serbs, their bodies dumped in mass graves over the course of the eleven day massacre in 1995.<br /><br />Occurring during the Bosnian war, it was one of numerous war crimes that the Army of the Republika Srpska are accused of committing over the course of the conflict.<br /><br />In addition to the murders, thousands of women, children and elderly people were forcibly deported, and a large number of women were raped.<br /><br />The United Nations, which attempted to pass a resolution in 2015 condemning the massacre as genocide, has previously called the events in Srebrenica “the greatest atrocity on European soil since the Second World War”.<br />
