Today is the 26th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica

In the Memorial Center in Potočari in Srebrenica, the 26th anniversary of that crime will be marked today with a commemoration of the victims.

According to the indictments of the Hague Tribunal, soldiers under the command of General Ratko Mladić organized and systematically killed around eight thousand Muslim men and boys until July 19. About 30 thousand women and children were deported in two days.

In 2007, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a verdict qualifying the massacre in Srebrenica as an act of genocide. Resolutions on Srebrenica confirming that verdict were passed by the parliaments of the countries of the European Union, Canada, the United States of America and Australia.

In July 2009, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Declaration on the acceptance of the resolution of the European Parliament on Srebrenica, which condemns the crime in that Bosnian-Herzegovinian city, as well as other crimes committed during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

On June 17, the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica.

From the Montenegrin officials, Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović, Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs Đorđe Radulović will attend the commemoration, while the President of the Assembly Aleksa Bečić will address via video link.

This year, the remains of 19 victims of genocide will be buried in the Memorial Center.

The youngest victim who will be buried this year was only 16 years old, and the oldest was 63 years old at the time of death.

The first funeral took place on March 31, 2003. At that time, 600 remains of genocide victims were buried.