(11 Jul 2002)
1. Wide shot of buses with survivors and relatives arriving at the site in Potocari
2. Various of families getting off buses
3. Women walking towards cemetery site
4. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Nejra Bahic, refugee from Srebrenica:
"It's really difficult to be here, We haven't seen our men for the past ten years, it is very hard, but after these ten years we at least need a place to bury their bones."
5. Close-up of poster reading, 'Never Forget'
6. Gravestone, covered by sheet
7. Wideshot of Muslim men sitting on ground for prayers
8. Various of men praying during service
9. Wideshot of journalists and large gathering of people for prayer ceremony
10. Women laying flowers on memorial stone inscribed, 'Srebrenica, July 1995'
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paddy Ashdown, EU High Representative:
"This is a very important event. It's an event in which we remember the horrors, obviously, of those who suffered in Srebrenica, but also those who suffered right across Bosnia-Herzegovina."
12. Clerics sitting praying
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Clifford Bond, US Ambassador to Bosnia:
"The ICTY has begun now an active programme of matching DNA samples and identifying the victims - hundreds a month. So I think a lot has been accomplished, although I fully understand the frustration of the families and the need to move quickly to meet their concerns."
14. Men praying
15. Stone pillar - gravestone - next to the older memorial
STORYLINE:
Amid tight security, thousands of survivors returned on Thursday to Srebrenica, on the seventh anniversary of the massacre that shocked the world.
In 1995 at Potocari, just outside Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb troops rounded up and slaughtered some eight thousand Muslim civilians.
At Thursday's ceremony, prayers were made and tributes spoken, while relatives and politicians from the EU stood and listened, some in tears.
A new gravestone was unveiled, to stand alongside a memorial block which is inscribed simply, 'Srebrenica, July 1995'.
The ceremony took place on the site where a UN compound once stood and where in July 1995, near the end of the Bosnian war, the civilians were massacred.
Their bodies were then dumped in over a hundred mass-graves scattered around Srebrenica.
Forensic experts working under the Bosnian Commission for Missing Persons and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have been painstakingly identifying those bodies that have been found. But only about half of them have been exhumed so far.
Once all the investigations are completed the remains will be handed over to relatives for private burial.
This will still take some time. But eventually families will be able to re-bury their loved ones in the cemetery surrounding the new gravestone unveiled on Thursday.
On July 11 seven years ago Serb troops led by General Ratko Mladic - now one of the most-wanted war crimes suspects sought by the Hague Tribunal - forced out all Muslims who had been taking sanctuary in Srebrenica under UN protection.
They headed toward nearby Potocari, where a small number of Dutch UN peacekeepers were stationed.
The Muslims hoped the Dutch would be able to protect them.
But the Dutch peacekeepers were outnumbered and their repeated requests for the UN headquarters in Bosnia to send them NATO air support were ignored. Mladic took charge.
Serb soldiers separated men and women and brought the men to fields, where they executed more than eight thousand systematically during three days.
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