Several organisations held their annual commemoration of the 1995 fall of the Srebrenica Muslim enclave in The Hague on Monday.
Srebrenica was under the protection of the Dutch UN battalion Dutchbat. In the days after its fall, nearly 8,000 men were executed by Bosnian-Serb forces.
At the commemoration ceremony in The Hague, the names of 613 victims whose remains are to be buried at Potocari Memorial Cemetery will be read aloud. The bodies were recovered from mass graves over the past few months. One survivor of the genocide, Fahrudin Alic, will give a speech at the ceremony.
Bosnian-Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was in command of the troops carrying out the genocide, was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in May.
Last week, The Hague court of appeals ruled the state of the Netherlands liable for the deaths of three men in Srebrenica. The remains of two of them were also recovered recently.
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