(18 Sep 2003)
Near Srebrenica
1. Wide shot of Potocari cemetery with new memorial centre visible
2. Sign by road announcing opening of memorial to Srebrenica on 20th September
3. Stone monument with "Srebrenica, July 1995" engraved on side
4. Graves marked with plastic "gravestones"
5. Digger excavating more graves
6. Various shots of graves and plastic "gravestones"
7. Pan shot of helicopter in the air
8. Men and mechanical digger excavating more graves
9. Man hammering together wooden frame for graves
10. Graves lined with wooden frames
Visoko
11. People sitting and mourning (they are relatives of Srebrenica victims come to see if their relatives' remains are among the latest remains under DNA analysis here)
12. Various shots of women praying and mourning
13. Trucks and vans driving along road in convoy as remains of 107 people are taken from DNA analysis identification centre back for burial in Srebrenica
14. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Munira Hasic
"Clinton is coming too late. He should have prevented the tragedy while these people were still alive. Now that they are all dead, it's too late. I lost my son and my husband, and I buried my son, but I still haven't found my husband."
15. Various shots of local men and women walking along road, some crying
STORYLINE:
The remains of 107 victims of Europe's worst massacre since World War Two were transferred from Visoko to Srebrenica on Thursday for reburial.
The reburials are scheduled for later this week during an official opening of a memorial centre dedicated to the victims of the infamous massacre at Srebrenica in 1995.
The remains of 107 people left a DNA analysis identification centre on Thursday morning in the central town of Visoko to begin the four-hour drive to Srebrenica.
Gathered outside the centre were several people who still haven't recovered the remains of their relatives.
DNA testing has identified less than half of the remains recovered.
Up to 8,000 Muslims, mostly boys and men, were killed at Srebrenica in July 1995 by Bosnian Serb troops who had overrun the eastern town, then a U.N.-protected zone.
The killings came just months before the end of the country's 1992-95 war between local Serbs, Muslims and Croats.
On Saturday, the victims will be buried at the Potocari cemetery near Srebrenica during the official inauguration of a memorial centre there that will be opened by former U.S. president Bill Clinton.
The cemetery and memorial centre are located in the field where most of the killings took place more than eight years ago.
The bodies were dumped in mass graves across eastern Bosnia and are still being discovered.
So far, more than 5,000 Srebrenica victims have been exhumed.
Earlier this year, a total of 882 bodies were buried in two ceremonies at the Potocari cemetery.
Srebrenica survivors asked former U.S. President Bill Clinton to officiate at the opening because of his instrumental role in ending the country's bloodshed when he brought the leaders of the three warring sides together in Dayton, Ohio to negotiate a peace agreement.
The Dayton peace agreement ended the war that claimed about 250,000 lives and left around 20,000 missing and presumed dead.
Around 18,000 bodies have been exhumed from more than 300 mass graves across the country.

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