Despite the difficulties they have encountered on their journey due to heavy rainfalls, several thousands of the Peace March participants are about to complete a nearly 100-kilometres long path in memory of the Srebrenica genocide victims.
The rain that has been falling the last night and through the day made the forest path they have to pass muddy and hard to walk but all of nearly 6,000 participants decided to march until the final destination, the Potocari Memorial Centre.
The marchers are walking the final phase of the path from Nezuk to Potocari, where they will attend the annual commemoration event and burial ceremony for 33 identified victims of the 1995 massacre.
US Ambassador to Bosnia Eric Nelson joined the marchers on the last day and will walk the final part until arrival at the Memorial Centre on Wednesday afternoon.
Ambasador USA u BiH, Eric Nelson pridruzio se ucesnicima Marsa mira pred dolazak u Potocare.
Porucio: Mracna historija Srebrenice ne moze se negirati. @USEmbassySJJ @N1infoSA pic.twitter.com/GTE2KAgpcM
— Hana Soko (@HanaSoko) July 10, 2019
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian enclave and rounded up the town’s Muslim Bosniaks, separated men from women and little children and systematically executed some 8,000 men and boys.
The bodies of the victims were buried in a large number of mass graves.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice later ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
