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Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC

Bosnian Muslims Commemorate Srebrenica Genocide

A Bosnian Muslim woman, a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, prays at the memorial cemetery in the village of Potocari (Credit: AFP)

Solemn mourners began gathering in Srebrenica on Thursday to remember the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims, less two months after the UN established a memorial day to mark the genocide.

On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the eastern Bosnian town -- which was then a UN-protected enclave -- and killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the following days.

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