About 120 people marched through central Rijeka on Saturday to mark 17 years since Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide against the Bosniak population of Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, at the end of the country's 1992-1995 war. The march was organised by the Council of the Bosniak ethnic minority in this northern Adriatic city.
At the end of the march the participants, wearing T-shirts with the inscription "Srebrenica - Lest It Should Be Forgotten", laid 17 roses in memory of over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys who were massacred by Bosnian Serb forces after they overran the UN-protected area of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Among the participants was Nedzad Hodzic, who represents the Bosniak, Albanian, Montenegrin, Macedonian and Slovenian minorities in the Croatian Parliament, who said that Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day, observed on July 11, would be marked throughout Croatia.
