(9 Jul 2010) SHOTLIST
Cerska, near Srebrenica
1. Wide of people with flags walking on road
2. Various of people walking along road
3. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amar Nisic, Bosnian Muslim:
"We just want to relive what our fellow men went through 15 years ago. That's the least that we can do."
4. Various of people walking along road
Srebrenica
5. Trucks with coffins arriving at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 Genocide
6. Various of women crying
7. Men preparing to unload coffins from trucks
8. Women crying
9. Coffin in back of hearse
10. Nameplate of Catholic victim Rudolf Hren on wooden cross
11. Coffin taken out of hearse
12. Various of people passing Muslim coffins above their heads
13. Various of people gathered around coffins
14. Close-up of man with his head in his hands next to coffins
STORYLINE:
Trucks bearing 775 coffins arrived at the memorial centre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica on Friday, ahead of a memorial service for the victims of Europe's worst crime since the Nazi era.
The 775 sets of remains, found in mass graves and identified through DNA tests, will be buried at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 Genocide on Sunday - the 15th anniversary of the crime which occurred at the tail end of 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Earlier, thousands of people gathered in Visoko, in central Bosnia to pay their last respects to the bodies of the victims, all of the them Muslim except for one Roman Catholic.
The remains were all recently exhumed from mass graves around Srebrenica.
Many of the victims were killed in and around the nearby village of Cerska.
Hundreds took part in a memorial march from Cerska to Srebrenica on Friday.
Srebrenica was besieged by Serb forces throughout the war.
It had been declared by a safe zone by the United Nations and a number Bosnians had flocked there for protection.
But in July 1995, Serb troops led by General Ratko Mladic overran the enclave.
The outnumbered UN troops never fired a shot.
They watched as Mladic's troops rounded up the population of Srebrenica and took the men away for execution.
It has been described by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the darkest page in UN history.
Their bodies were dumped in a number of mass graves.
After the end of the war and following international pressure to investigate and punish Bosnia's wartime atrocities, Serbs dug up some of the bodies and scattered them in other mass graves.
Every year, more victims' bodies are recovered from mass graves found in the area, identified through DNA analysis, and reburied.

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