Relatives came from across Bosnia for the funeral

More than 7,000 Muslims men and boys were killed in 1995 - Europe's worst massacre since World War II.

A month ago Bosnian Serb authorities admitted for the first time that their forces had carried out the murders.

The anniversary was also marked in The Hague, with the release of white balloons in memory of the victims.

In Bosnia, the widows, mothers, daughters, relatives and friends of the men and boys massacred in Srebrenica made the journey to the town.

Mass graves

The simple coffins lay in orderly rows, individually numbered and wrapped in green sheets, awaiting burial in a field-turned-cemetery.

The remains were recovered from mass graves littering the hills and valleys near the border with Serbia. More are found every year.

So far 989 bodies have been identified by DNA analysis. But the bones of more than 5,000 people are packed in body bags, still awaiting identification.

The 338 victims who were buried on Sunday were aged between 15 and 77.

Remains have been collected from mass graves around Srebrenica

"It is only today that I know I will never see my brother again," said Azemina Nuhanovic, whose brother Husein was being buried.

"All these years I hoped to find him alive, but that hope is now dead and it breaks my heart."

In July 1995 Bosnian Serb forces walked past Dutch UN peacekeepers supposed to be guarding the people of Srebrenica, separated the men and boys from their female relatives, and killed more than 7,000 of them.

The Bosnian Serb President Dragan Cavic has described the event as a "black page in the history of the Serb people".

The BBC's Nick Hawton in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, says such words are welcome to an international community seeking to bring Bosnia's former enemies together.

But, he says, the words mean little to the widows of Srebrenica, who make their annual pilgrimage filled with tears and grief.