To commemorate the 1992 persecution of Bosniaks from the northern town of Kotor-Varos, about 80 people began their three-day Peace March march from the central town of Travnik under the name 'Silent Walk for Great Pain' on Friday.

The participants are expected to arrive in Kotor-Varos on November 3.

The participants of the march demand that authorities in the Serb-majority semi-autonomous entity of Republika Srpska (RS) speed up the process of finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice.

In 1992, Bosnian Serb forces persecuted about 5,000 Bosniaks living in Kotor Varos, torturing and killing at least 300.

The head of the ‘Vrbanja’ association of victims in Kotor-Varos, Munevera Avdic, told reporters that the fate of a large number of people remains unknown 27 years after the killings.

“We are still searching for a total of 275 Bosniaks from the Kotor-Varos area,” she said.

There are two cases regarding the war crimes in Kotor-Varos which are dragging on at Bosnia’s State Court for years already, Avdic said.

“We will continue to fight for truth and justice and pressure all relevant institutions that are working and where employees are receiving salaries to speed up the process of finding missing persons, because our families are dying and we are losing strength,” she said.