Sarajevo - More than 20,000 people gathered Saturday at the Potocari Memorial Park in Bosnia to mark the 14th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The remains of 534 victims were buried, including those of a 14- year-old boy and a 75-year old man. So far a total of 3,749 identified bodies have been buried at the Potocari park.
Some 2,500 people arrived at the park following a three-day peace march along the 111-kilometre path taken by men fleeing to safety after fleeing Srebrenica 14 years ago.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb troops entered the UN-protected enclave Srebrenica and killed more than 8,000 Muslims. Some 30,000 people were expelled from their homes.
The European Parliament in January declared July 11 a "Day of Commemoration" of the Srebrenica massacre. The resolution called upon all countries aspiring to become EU member states to support the resolution on Srebrenica.
So far Montenegro and Croatia support the resolution. Serbia and the Serbian entity in Bosnia, the Serb Republic, do not.
After the 1992-95 war Bosnia was divided into two largely autonomous parts - the Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation - within Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the federation, July 11 is a day of mourning for the Srebrenica victims.
Valentin Inzko, the International High Representative in Bosnia, called for those responsible to be punished.
"Here is a mother who today buries 13 relatives and there are no words to describe such sorrow," Inzko said at the commemoration.
"Evil exists and 14 years ago it prevailed here. Our job is to bring before justice those who did this evil. We must not forget those who died because that would be as if we were killing them for the second time," he added.
The Muslim member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Haris Silajdzic, reminded spectators that the international community and UN are also to blame for the genocide and warned that "mistakes can be made, but must not be repeated."
He called upon Serbia to "accept the responsibility for genocide and arrest Ratko Mladic." Mladic, a general for ethnic Serb forces during the war, is the most wanted fugitive still at large.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested and handed to the Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) last year.
