(1 Jun 2017) Some three thousand people gathered to pay their last respects to nine Bosnian Muslims buried at a mass funeral on Thursday in Kalesija.
They were victims of Serb forces during the Bosnian war in 1992. The youngest was 19 and the eldest a woman of 76.
The bodies were found in 2016 in a mass grave in Glogova.
It contained remains of 218 people - Bosnian Muslims from Zvornik, Bratunac and Srebrenica.
It was the second largest mass grave ever found in Bosnia.
Most of those buried on Thursday had been part of a convoy of Muslim refugees fleeing a Serb military offensive on 1 June 1992 in Zvornik.
They were trying to reach the nearby town of Kalesija which was under control of Bosnian army forces, but they failed as many were captured and later executed.
The Serb paramilitary unit "Beli Orlovi" (White Eagles) and their leader Vojislav Seselj were later indicted for war crimes by the United Nations war crime tribunal in the Hague for the killings.

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