Bosnian Muslim War Victims Laid to Rest
More than 3,000 people attended a joint funeral of 32 Muslim civilians, among them a five-year-old boy, killed during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, FENA news agency reported.
The victims -- 31 males and a 69-year-old woman -- were killed in the eastern town of Zvornik by Bosnian Serb forces during their notorious 'ethnic cleansing' campaign.
Their bodies, recovered from mass graves in the area, were identified, over the past year.
The victims were buried at a cemetery in the nearby village of Gornja Kalesija, where so far the remains of 685 Zvornik civilians, killed during the war, have been laid to rest.
In mid-1992 Bosnian Serbs backed by the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) seized mainly Muslim eastern Bosnia, which includes Zvornik, and victimized its non-Serb inhabitants.
Almost 2,000 Muslim civilians were killed in Zvornik during the war, according to the victims' associations, while the remains of hundreds have still not been found.
Bosnia's inter-ethnic war claimed some 100,000 lives while more than two million people, almost a half of the country's pre-war population, had to flee their homes.
Source: Agence France Presse
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