Bikers from all parts of Europe arrive to pay last respect to Srebrenica victims

For eight years the bikers from all parts of Europe take part in the international marathon in memory of the victims. The message they send is the message of peace and respect for the victims, they say.

This year over 500 bikers headed to Potocari, the eastern Bosnia, to attend the mass burial of the 1995 mass killing.

They set off the journey Thursday morning from Ilidza near Sarajevo, making a stop in the capital's centre, at Sarajevo Memorial for Children Killed During Siege.

Besides the bikers, several hundreds of cyclists passed hundreds of kilometres long road from the westernmost part of the country and arrived at the Potocari Memorial a day before the mass funeral.

This Thursday, 33 victims will be buried in Potocari, on the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

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.