Bosnia to bury 6 more war victims in collective funeral

By Talha Ozturk

BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) - Bosnia and Herzegovina will bury six more victims of the Bosnian War in a commemorative ceremony Friday.

Their remains will be buried in the town of Bratunac near Srebrenica, where more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in a genocide.

The victims' bodies were discovered in mass graves years later and are now ready for a collective funeral after their identification and judicial process was completed in the city of Tuzla.

Amira Paraganlija, the youngest victim that will be buried, was 7 years old when she was killed.

The Bosnian War was sparked by the break-up of Yugoslavia, which led Bosnia to declare independence in February 1992.

The capital, Sarajevo, came under attack by Bosnian Serb militias in what became the longest siege in modern history, lasting nearly four years.

Between April 1992 and December 1995, an estimated 100,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced in Bosnia and as many as 50,000 women, mostly Bosniak, were raped, according to estimates from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the UN.