More than 6,000 people on Wednesday set off from the village of Nezuk on the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in Potocari, retracing part of the route taken by thousands of Bosniak men and boys who fled the fall of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995.
The three-day, 100-kilometre march, now in its 22nd year, follows in reverse the mountainous paths that thousands of men and boys took while fleeing the Bosnian Serb army. In the days following July 11, 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were killed in a series of systematic killings that were later classified as genocide by international and local courts.
Leading this year’s procession were survivors of the Srebrenica genocide, followed by children and relatives of those who were killed, alongside thousands of participants from Bosnia and abroad who joined the march to honour the victims.
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