SARAJEVO
Forty six victims of the Srebrenica Genocide -- Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War -- have been identified and will be buried on the 20th anniversary of the atrocity, the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina has announced.
The institute's spokeswoman, Lejla Cengi, confirmed to The Anadolu Agency (AA) on Tuesday that the victims had been found in mass graves.
She said: "We have formally identified 46 victims, whose families have declared that they want the remains to be buried on July 11 this year ... the identified persons are ready for the collective funeral on July 11."
Cengic added that, although 160 victims had been discovered in mass graves and officially identified, most families wanted to wait before they could be buried as many of the corpses were currently incomplete.
She said about 1,000 corpses were also set to be re-exhumed in the village of Potocari in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, six kilometers (3.7 miles) north-west of the town of Srebrenica, and their identification should be carried out by July.
About 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed after the Bosnian Serb army attacked the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica in July 1995, despite the presence of Dutch troops tasked with acting as UN peacekeepers.
A total of 6,241 victims had been buried at the Memorial Centre of Potocari and 230 victims buried outside of the village as of July 2014.
Since the end of the conflict, hundreds of Bosniak families continue to search for missing people among the large numbers of civilians who were killed and thrown into mass graves around the country.
A total of 8,400 people remain missing after the 1992-95 Bosnian War, according to the Institute for Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
