Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, Sejdalija Alic and Hasib Omerovic will be buried Friday alongside thousands of other victims, though their families will lay to rest only a few recovered bones in hopes of finding peace.
The two men were among the more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys killed by Bosnian Serb forces after they captured the town on July 11, 1995, in one of Europe's worst atrocities since World War II.
About 1,000 victims are still reported missing, according to authorities.
"Everyone called him 'Brko' ('Moustache'). I never saw him without his moustache. What a charmer he was!" said Mirzeta Karic of her father, Sejdalija Alic, with a gentle smile on her face.
In December 1993, more than a year after the start of Bosnia's inter-ethnic war, "Brko" and his daughter, then aged 18, were the last to flee their village of Jagodnja, in the Srebrenica area, under fire from Bosnian Serb forces.
