The Srebrenica genocide, committed against Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb soldiers and police in July 1995, will be commemorated on 11 July and the remains of another 30 victims will be buried the following week.

The remains were exhumed from mass graves but identification took years because of their condition, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Institute for Missing Persons (INO) says.

The youngest victim to be buried next week was 15 when he was killed. Two other victims, also boys, were 16 and 17.

INO-operated morgues contain the remains of at least 69 persons identified as Srebrenica genocide victims whose families have not consented to a burial, mainly because the remains are incomplete.

Partial remains are mainly due to the fact that after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement at the end of 1995, Bosnian Serb authorities attempted to cover up the traces of the crime by relocating them, resulting in secondary or tertiary graves across eastern BiH.

Over 8,000 persons were killed in the genocide, mainly men and boys. To date, the remains of 6,652 have been buried at the Potočari memorial. The remains of 237 have been buried elsewhere according to their families’ wishes.

For the Srebrenica genocide, the Hague war crimes tribunal sentenced to life former Bosnian Serb political and military leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.