A memorial service for 69 Serb civilians and soldiers who were killed on St. Peter’s Day, on June 29th, 1992, was held Monday, in the presence of Serbian and Bosnian Serb officials.

Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, Bosnia's Republika Srpska (RS) entity Interior Minister Dragan Lukac and the son of convicted criminal Vojislav Seselj – Aleksandar, who is the deputy leader of the Serbian Radical Party, arrived in Zalazje, N1 reporter Tina Jelin-Dizdar reported, who is reporting from the commemoration. Bosnia's Presidency chairman, Milorad Dodik, is also expected to come to the commemoration.

After the liturgy in the Church in Srebrenica, the families of the victims will visit the places of suffering, lay flowers at the memorial and light candles at the cemetery in Bratunac and execution sites in Biljaca and Sasa.

A total of 69 people of Serb ethnicity were killed in the Drina valley on St. Peter's Day, and 22 of them went missing, only seven of whom were found alive. Of the 22 missing persons, 10 were accidentally found and exhumed on June 10, 2011, from a mass grave in Zalazje, while searching for killed Bosniaks.

The remains of the victims were identified and buried on St. Peter's Day in 2012 – more than a year later, while two bodies were exhumed, identified and buried earlier.

The remaining ten missing persons have not yet been found.

The organizer of this commemoration is the “Committee for the Commemoration of the Serb Suffering of Srebrenica.”

Bosnian general Naser Oric was indicted but later acquitted of the crimes in Zalazje by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.

The Zalazje commemoration is taking place every year a day after Bosniaks mark the 1995 Srebrenica genocide – the systematic killing of some 8,000 Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces which is often referred to as the worst crime committed on European soil since WWII.