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Last Updated: Saturday, 9 July, 2005, 17:32 GMT 18:32 UK
Srebrenica dead taken for burial
Sarajevo mourners watch lorries carrying bodies pass
Some families have been unable to retrieve loved ones' remains
Thousands of people have lined the streets of Sarajevo to watch a convoy taking the remains of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre for burial.

Survivors and relatives of the dead watched as trucks carried the remains of 610 Muslims to a suburb of the town for a joint funeral service on Monday.

Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and youths were killed by Bosnian Serbs in Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.

A simultaneous rally in Belgrade sought to highlight Serb victims of the war.

They were killing them like they were rabbits
Fadila Efendic
Srebrenica widow

In Sarajevo, Fadila Efendic, a Muslim woman who lost her husband and a 15-year-old son in the massacre, recalled the horror of being separated along with other women from their menfolk before the killings.

"They were killing them like they were rabbits or some kind of wild animals," she told the Associated Press news agency.

"I heard shots as my 14-year-old daughter and I were transported in an open truck trailer."

It was, she added, "too late" for Serbs to offer remorse for the killings which have been catalogued by the war crimes tribunal at The Hague.

Memorial

Many of those being transported on Saturday were found in more than 60 mass graves that were exhumed around Srebrenica.

No one talks about crimes against Serbs
Aleksanadar Vucic
Serbian Radical Party

They will be buried in a ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the massacre on Monday at Potocari, just outside Srebrenica.

More than 1,300 victims have already been buried at the two-year-old memorial cemetery.

However, thousands of others have yet to be identified as more burial sites are unearthed.

In the Yugoslav capital, Serbian nationalists organised a conference on Saturday to highlight Serbian war victims.

A documentary featuring archive footage of victims, the authenticity of which could not be readily verified by journalists, was shown to an audience of hundreds and was also broadcast by smaller TV channels.

"We are in an absurd situation where no one talks about crimes against Serbs," Aleksanadar Vucic, an official of the hardline Radical Party, told a local newspaper.




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