Bosnians bury hundreds of Srebrenica massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the killings

Bosnians mark 15 years since Srebrenica massacre

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Tens of thousands of people are expected in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to bury hundreds of massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst crime in Europe since the Nazi era.

A whole hillside was dug out with graves on Sunday morning waiting for the 775 coffins to be laid to rest at the biggest Srebrenica funeral so far.

Still, that is just less than a tenth of the total number of men and boys who were executed when Serb forces overran the U.N. protected town in July 1995.

Then, some 30,000 residents flocked to the U.N. military base in the suburb of Potocari for refuge. But when the Serbs came, the outnumbered Dutch troops simply opened the gate.

The bodies were previously in mass graves.