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Last Updated: Monday, 31 March, 2003, 14:44 GMT 15:44 UK
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In pictures: Srebrenica buries its dead
A Bosnian Muslim woman refugee from Srebrenica area who lost her sons weeps as she touches a truck loaded with identified mortal remains of 300 Srebrenica massacre victims
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Relatives of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have been finally able to bury their dead
A Bosnian Muslim woman weeps at a grave
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The Bosnian Serb forces which overran the area killed about 8,000 Muslim men and boys
Two Bosnian women weeping
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Many of the mourners are women who were separated from their men folk at a site close to the cemetery
A Bosnian Muslim woman refugee from the Srebrenica area who lost her male family members
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Many are still searching for relatives
The head of Bosnian Muslim community, Mufti Mustafa Ceric, prays in front of coffins
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The ceremony was conducted by Bosnia's top Muslim cleric, Reis Mustafa Ceric, who called for justice
Coffins of remains of 600 bodies of Bosnian Muslims were laid in a local factory, a day before burial in Potocari, near Srebrenica
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The 600 buried on Monday are the first to be identified from remains gathered from more than 60 mass graves
Ramo Smajic, a Bosnian Muslim refugee from Srebrenica, prays at his father's coffin
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said the UN's failure to prevent the atrocity would "haunt our history forever"
General view of the Potocari memorial centre with 600 coffins of victims of the Srebrenica massacre
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Advances in DNA technology have made identification easier, but thousands of people still remain unaccounted for
Srebrenica massacre survivors passing through Tuzla, Bosnia
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Survivors of the Srebrenica massacre marked the occasion on Friday, when they passed through the main street of Tuzla, Bosnia


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