Some 50,000 people, including European leaders and the presidents of all former Yugoslav republics, were present in the Potocari graveyard where 775 victims were buried along side the 3,749 bodies already there. "We recognise that there can be no lasting peace without justice," US President Barack Obama said in a speech read out for him at the Potocari graveyard near the town of Srebrenica.
This meant the "prosecution and punishment of those who carried out the genocide," he said. "This includes Ratko Mladic who presided over the killings and remains at large." Mladic, Bosnian Serb army chief during the 1992-1995 war, has been in hiding for almost 15 years and believed to be in Serbia.