Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina have held a commemoration ceremony in honorof some 35-hundred ethnic Serbs killed during the Balkan conflict ofthe 1990s.
Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and otherBosnian Serb officials attended the event Saturday and laid wreaths ata memorial in Bratunac, near Srebrenica.
The commemorationtook place one day after Bosnian Muslims marked the 13th anniversary ofthe Srebrenica Massacre, in which Serb forces summarily killedeight-thousand Muslim men and boys.
The top international envoyto Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak, attended the ceremony in Srebrenica onFriday. His deputy Ivan Busniak attended the Bratunac event today.
Thecommemorations took place amid increasing tensions following lastweek's decision by the United Nations war crimes tribunal that clearedthe former commander of Muslim forces in Srebrenica (Naser Oric) of warcrimes. The ruling angered many Serbs.
In other regional news,a land mine left over from the 1990s conflict exploded Saturday morningnear the central Bosnian town of Maglaj, killing two mine clearers.
More than a decade after the bloody ethnic conflict ended, parts of Bosnia remain infested with land mine and other explosives.
