Srebrenica buries 127 victims of 1995 massacre victims

The remains of 127 newly-found victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have been buried more than 20 years after the carnage.

According to the reports, on Monday, several thousand people gathered in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to bury the coffins containing the remains of the 127 victims from Europe's worst massacre since World War II, whose bodies have recently been retrieved from mass graves.

Mourning families of the victims paid tribute by laying flowers and hugging the coffins before the burial ceremony at a memorial site in the village of Potocari near Srebrenica.

The youngest victim was 14 years old and the oldest 77.

"My brother is here, the pain is immense," said a member of a victim family, who added, "His bones were found in the woods... Seven years ago, we were told that only two bones were found, but recently more remains were discovered and we decided to bury what was found."

According to the Bosnian institute of missing persons, some 6,300 victims are currently buried at the memorial site and 230 in other cemeteries.

Every year, new bodies are discovered and the remains are identified through DNA analysis before being buried at the Potocari memorial center.

The remains of around 1,500 other victims are yet to be identified in the aftermath of the massacre.

In July 1995, Serbian death squads butchered over 8,000 Muslim Bosnian boys and men in Srebrenica in a few days, in the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

The carnage took place after Bosnian Serbs ran over the Bosnian town, even though it was formally declared a UN-protected area.

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