SREBRENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Anadolu) —

Potocari cemetery in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina witnessed on Saturday the burial of the remains of 10 victims whose identities were confirmed, victims of the Srebrenica genocide committed by Serbian forces in 1995.

The funeral ceremony was held at the cemetery to bury the remains of 10 genocide victims, the worst humanitarian tragedy in Europe since World War II, which resulted in the deaths of at least 8,372 Bosnian civilians at the hands of Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic.

Officials from Bosnia and Herzegovina attended the ceremony, along with Turkish Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Ozdemir Goktas, leader of Turkey's Free Cause Party Zekeriya Yapicioglu, Turkish Ambassador to Sarajevo Amin Akski, and several other Turkish officials and deputies.

Before the ceremony, heads of state, governments, and ministers from several countries laid wreaths at the memorial for the massacre.

Husein Kavazovic, head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, led the funeral prayer, followed by recitations and reading of the victims' names. Then the bodies were transferred to pre-prepared graves, where family members buried them in an emotional atmosphere filled with tears.

Turkish Minister Mahinur also met with the families of the victims and offered condolences.

The youngest victim whose remains were buried this year was Senad Jusic, who was 20 years old when killed, while the oldest was Ramo Daudovic, aged 56.

After this year's ceremony, the number of genocide victims buried in Potocari cemetery rose to 6,782.

The genocide dates back to July 11, 1995, when Bosnian Serb forces led by Ratko Mladic overran the town of Srebrenica, and Dutch UN troops handed over Bosniak civilians who had sought refuge to the Serbian forces.

While women and children were allowed to move to areas controlled by the Bosnian army, Serbian forces killed at least 8,372 Bosnian men and boys in forests, factories, and warehouses before burying them in mass graves.

Since the end of the war, searches for the missing have continued, and victims whose remains are found and identified are reburied during annual ceremonies on July 11 at the Potocari memorial cemetery.