SHOTLIST: POTOCARI, BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (JULY 10, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. ATHLETES RUNNING BY HOLDING BANNER 2. VARIOUS OF MOTORCYCLERS PARADING AS PART OF CEREMONY 3. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ATTENDING "PEACE MARCH" 4. PARTICIPANT CYRING DURING MARCH 5. CHILDREN MARCHING BY HOLDING BANNER 6. VARIOUS OF SOME PEOPLE HOLDING TURKISH FLAG 7. VARIOUS OF PARTICIPANTS CARRYING PALESTINIAN FLAGPOTOCARI, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - JULY 10: “Peace March” organized in Potocari to mark 30nd anniversary of Srebrenitsa genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nearly six thousand people from different countries participated in the three-day march organized on the route known as the “road of death” due to the genocide in July 1995. Flags with golden lilies used by Bosniaks during the war in 1992-1995, Turkish and Palestinian flags were also carried in addition to the flags of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the march. Participants in the event, which was organized for the 21st time this year, prayed for the victims of genocide at the Potočari Memorial Cemetery, which they reached after a 3-day march that started on July 8 from the town of Nezuk in the central part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Participants of different nationalities, who walked about 35 kilometers every day during the event, rested at certain points on the forest road. Bosniaks who survived the genocide at the resting places told the participants about their experiences and offered them refreshments. - Motorcyclists and cyclists attend ceremony in Potocari On the other hand, the participants of the International Srebrenica Motorcycle Marathon, which was organized for the 13th time this year with the theme “Let it not be forgotten, let it not be repeated”, reached Potocari Memorial Cemetery. Hundreds of motorcyclists coming from different countries and departing from the capital Sarajevo this morning were welcomed by citizens here. Cyclists from many cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina also arrived in Potočari. The funerals will be buried on Potocari Cemetery on July 11 with official ceremony. The victims’ remains, often incomplete, were recovered from mass graves in Liplje, Baljkovica, Suljici and Kamenicko Hill. To date, 6,765 genocide victims have been buried in Potocari, while 250 others have been laid to rest in local cemeteries at their families’ request. Victims have been identified from 150 locations across Bosnia and Herzegovina, many from eastern towns such as Srebrenica, Bratunac, Vlasenica, Zvornik and Milici. More than 1,000 genocide victims remain missing. In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, which had been declared a UN “safe area.” Over the course of several days, more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically separated from their families, executed, and buried in mass graves in what became the worst massacre on European soil since World War II. The genocide in Srebrenica has been recognized by international and national courts, including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which ruled that the mass killings constituted genocide. The atrocity left deep scars across Bosnia and reshaped the country’s post-war recovery and reconciliation efforts. - Justice and accountability The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as well as courts in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia have sentenced 54 individuals to a total of 781 years in prison and issued five life sentences for genocide and crimes against humanity committed in Srebrenica. Eighteen individuals, including Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic -- two of the main architects of some of the worst atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica -- were convicted by the Hague Tribunal, with five receiving life sentences. Bosnia’s courts have convicted 27 individuals, while Serbia and Croatia have also issued convictions related to the genocide. Ten suspects remain beyond the reach of Bosnia’s judiciary.