Mourners gathered in Bosnia's capital on Thursday for an emotional farewell ceremony honoring 10 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, two days before a mass funeral marking its 31st anniversary.
They were among the Bosnian muslims, or Bosniaks, killed by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic during the genocide in the eastern town of Srebrenica.
The funeral convoy departed from the central Bosnian town of Visoko in the morning, before moving through the capital Sarajevo's main streets under police escort.
In keeping with tradition, the convoy stopped in front of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency building. State officials and hundreds of Sarajevo residents laid flowers on the vehicles carrying the coffins and offered prayers. Some mourners wept.
Before leaving the capital, the convoy also paused at the Memorial for Children Killed During the Siege of Sarajevo and the Markale marketplace, the site of two major massacres during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.
