(15 Jul 2001)
Road from Sarajevo to Srebrenica
1. Policeman and sniffer dog checking bus
2. Women outside bus
3. Troops at desk
4. NATO troops escorting buses
5. S-FOR helicopter
6. Bosnian Serb police
7. Bosnian Serb police at barricades
Srebrenica
8. Man watching buses arrive
9. Buses arrive
10. Various of Muslims arriving on foot at the massacre site
11. Ritual washing before prayers
12. Women attending to fainted woman
13. Wide thousands attending mass prayer for the dead
14. Various of refugees crying
15. Various of women praying
16. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Muslim woman refugee
"How can I return here? My father was slaughtered here. I have no plan to return. Why didn't they escort us like this when we were leaving Srebrenica?"
17. Various of mass prayers
18. Women unveiling monument
19. Close up monument saying "Srebrenica, July 1995" carved in stone
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mustafa Peric, Muslim Mufti
"We pray for sorrow to become hope, for revenge to become justice, and for a mother's tears to be a reminder so that Srebrenica will never happen again to anyone and anywhere."
21. Flowers placed on the monument
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wolfgang Petritch, High Representative for International Community to Bosnia
"I believe the security situation was guaranteed by the Republic of Srpska police in a professional manner and I believe that this will have a positive effect on the eventual return of Bosnians into this area - to Srebrenica and the surroundings. The dead will be here soon, I hope the survivors, the living, will follow suit."
23. Muslim mourners touching memorial stone
STORYLINE:
Amid tight security, thousands of Bosnian Muslims who survived one of the worst massacres in modern history tearfully returned to the scene on Wednesday to remember the slaughter of up to eight-thousand of their loved ones.
Survivors gathered for the unveiling of a monument erected in memory of those who were killed when Serb forces overran the United Nations "safe zone" of Srebrenica in July 1995.
The Serb forces expelled the entire Muslim population and systematically executed the men and boys.
Because of recent violence against Muslims in Bosnia, nearly 1,300 local policemen lined the road into town.
International police units and hundreds of heavily armed U-S peacekeepers with tanks and Humvees were deployed throughout the area to monitor the situation and assist local police in preventing possible attacks.
Several U-S surveillance helicopters and Blackhawk helicopters choppers were patrolling the area, which is in the American sector of responsibility.
A convoy of 105 buses carried some five-thousand Muslims back to the scene about 70 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of Sarajevo.
Five widows who also lost sons unveiled the memorial in a brief ceremony.
The marker, whichis to be dedicated in memory of Srebrenica's victims, weighs three tons and bears the simple inscription: "Srebrenica, July 1995."
The 4,900 U-S dollar monument, paid for by the British government, stands in a corn field that will be turned into a cemetery for the reburial of massacre victims.
Since the end of the war, tribunal experts and the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons have exhumed the remains of about 4,800 victims, of whom only about 100 have been identified.
Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, and his military chief, General Mladic, top the tribunal's most-wanted list.
They have been indicted for genocide stemming from atrocities their forces committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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