(28 May 2011)
1. Wide of people standing on an Ottoman-era bridge in Visegrad, holding roses and praying
2. Mid of people praying
3. Various of people throwing flowers into the river
4. Mid of flowers floating in river
5. Close up woman crying
6. Close up of woman's hand holding a rose
7. Close up of woman
8. Mid of roses floating on the river
9. Various of women crying on the bridge
10. Close-up of woman looking down
11. Mid of roses floating on the river
12. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Bakira Hasecic, victim of Bosnian Serb rape campaign:
"My house is maybe 200 meters away from here. Today I am recalling the worst memories, standing on this bridge which in 1992 was covered with Bosniak blood, like a carpet."
13. Various of people marching on bridge and holding banner
14. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Adila Semdo, whose two brothers-in-law and father-in-law had been killed in Visegrad:
"What happened happened. If people can, they should forget all this, that would be the best."
15. Wide of number of buses passing
16. People getting on buses
17. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Ljiljana Radovanovic, from anti-war group "Women in Black":
"It (Mladic's arrest) was an act of handing over a war criminal because of an ultimatum by the EU related to granting us a candidate country status."
18. People wearing black on the bridge
19. Wide of the empty bridge
STORYLINE:
Around two thousand Muslim Bosniaks converged on the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad on Saturday to remember friends and relatives killed there by forces led by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic at the start of Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Arriving on busses, hundreds of mourners wept quietly as they threw almost three thousand roses from a bridge into the Drina River, which divides Bosnia Herzegovina from Serbia.
The ceremony was organised by various associations for victims of those who were ethnically cleansed from the eastern town after it had been overrun by Serb forces in May 1992.
"It is always hard for me to be here, especially when I am standing on this bridge which, in 1992, was covered with Bosniak blood, like a carpet," said Bakira Hasecic, a victim of Bosnian Serb rape campaign in wartime Visegrad.
People from Visegrad who were expelled in 1992 gather every year to commemorate their dead.
This year, the ceremony came just days after Mladic was arrested on Thursday in Serbia on war crimes charges stemming from the 1995 indictment issued against him by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
After 16-years avoiding international authorities, Mladic could be extradited to The Hague as early as Monday, should an appeal by his defence lawyers fail.
But for some families of the victims, justice has come too late.
"If people can, they should forget all this, that would be the best," said Adila Semdo whose two brothers-in-law and father-in-law were killed in Visegrad in 1992.
Mladic's alleged responsibility for 1992 ethnic cleansing of large swaths of the then predominantly Bosniak eastern Bosnia is mentioned in the indictment, along with 1995 Srebrenica massacre and 42-month siege of Sarajevo.
The area around Visegrad saw some of the bloodiest crimes committed during Bosnian war.
Thousands of civilians from the area were rounded up and killed by Mladic's troops and scores of non-Serb women were imprisoned and raped.
The bodies of hundreds of victims were dumped into the Drina River from the Ottoman-era Bridge in Visegrad or buried in mass graves around the town.
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