A commemoration marking the 16th anniversary of the crime against the Bosniaks in Srebrenica will be held in Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), and another 613 bodies of victims, which had been exhumed and identified, will be buried.

The commemoration will be attended by Bosniak and Croat members of the BiH Presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic respectively.

Izetbegovic is expected to address the attendees, as well as Croatian President Ivo Josipovic, who will lay wreaths at the memorial center in Potocari.

All police services in BiH are engaged in securing the gathering, and the Republika Srpska (RS) Interior Ministry is in charge of coordinating the police activities.

According to the official list of missing persons from Srebrenica from July 1995, the remains of another 3,040 persons are yet to be found.

The attendance of High Representative in BiH Valentin Inzko was also announced, as well as of several ambassadors accredited in BiH.

According to the data of a RS government committee, over 8,000 Bosniaks went missing in Srebrenica in July 1995, during the operation of the RS Armed Forces.

In the proceedings launched by BiH against the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, a verdict of guilty was delivered by the International Court of Justice in The Hague against certain members of the RS military and police for having committed genocide on the territory of Srebrenica. The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the committed crime in Srebrenica. The same resolution was adopted by the Serbian parliament.

Several persons were convicted before the The Hague Tribunal for the crimes in Srebrenica, and proceedings against Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are underway.