More than 5,000 people gathered Saturday in the northern Bosnia-Herzegovina's district of Brcko to attend the funeral ceremony for 80 people killed in the town at the beginning of the country's 1992-1995 war, according to dpa. Bosnian Muslims religious leader Reisu-I-ulema Mustafa Ceric held the service that was also attended by Bosnian officials. The victims, 77 Bosnian Muslims, and three Bosnian Croats, were killed in Brcko in 1992, soon after Bosnian Serb troops captured the town and started persecution of non-Serb civilians. All 80 people that were buried in Brcko Saturday were exhumed from a mass grave Gorice near Brcko last year. More than 500 non-Serb civilians were killed in Brcko and the surrounding villages at early stages of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. -- SPA
