About 1,000 Bosnian Serbs have gathered in the eastern town of Bratunac to commemorate soldiers and civilians killed in the country's 1992-95 war, a day after the 10th anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys was marked in nearby Srebrenica.

Bosnian Serb associations, including an association of camp detainees and the combatants organisation of the Republika Srpska (RS, the Serb entity of post-war Bosnia), recently published the names and ages at death of more than 3,000 Serbs allegedly killed by Muslim forces in Srebrenica.

The youngest, Dimitrijevic Radisav, was nine years old, while the oldest, Mitrovic Stanko, was 92.

The Serb member of Bosnia's presidency, Borislav Paravac, Foreign Minister Mladen Ivanic, RS President Dragan Cavic and Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic laid wreaths at a cemetery where about 1,000 war victims are buried as an Orthodox priest led a prayer for the dead.

"My son, where are you spending your youth?" asked a woman through her tears, embracing a cross at her son's grave.

"Srebrenica (massacre) is the result of what they (Muslims) did, killing and burning all the Serb villages," said 70-year-old Danilo Stevic.

The commemoration was to continue later Tuesday in Srebrenica with a mass at an Orthodox church.

The wartime commander of Muslim forces in Srebrenica, Naser Oric, is on trial for war crimes at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

The Srebrenica massacre is the only episode of Bosnia's war that the tribunal has identified as genocide.

The alleged masterminds of the slaughter, Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief, Ratko Mladic, are still at large in the Balkans.