by Davor Huic

TUZLA, Bosnia, July 11 (Reuter) - World women leaders joined Bosnian Moslem refugees on Thursday in calling for truth and justice at an emotion-laden commemoration of the first anniversary of the bloody fall of Srebrenica. Investigations by the International Criminal Tribunal on former Yugoslavia indicate that separatist Serb forces massacred anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 Moslem men and boys when they overran Srebrenica, The bloodshed around Srebrenica, a supposed U.N. "safe area."in eastern Bosnia, was Europe's worst war atrocity since the Nazi Holocaust against Jews. "War criminals must be brought to justice," European Comissioner for humanitarian issues Emma Bonino told 6,000 Srebrenica women refugees packed into a sports hall, many of them weeping for missing relatives. NATO, now policing Bosnia's new peace, says it cannot hunt down indicted war criminals in Serb-controlled territory for fear of casualties to its troops. But U.N. war crimes investigators have started excavating mass graves believed to con

tain some of the thousands of Moslems missing since Srebrenica's conquest. Bonino and Jordan's Queen Noor led a large group of women leaders who came to the Bosnian government city of Tuzla, home for most Srebrenica exiles, for a first anniversary ceremony. The message of the foreign visitors to 30,000 Srebrenica women, children and elderly who live a dreary, jobless existance was: "Don't forget, but look to the future". To help them find their way out of misery and start small businesses, the women leaders brought some $8 million of aid and four tonnes of medicines. During the two-hour ceremony, at least a dozen women, most of wearing traditional Moslem head scarves and baggy trousers, fainted in the stuffy air and emotion. On a big screen, organisers showed several amateur video films of Srebrenica, a former silver-mining town, taken before and during the 1992-95 war, and during its final tormented days before being overrun by Serb tank columns. "Four sons I had, two beautiful ones I lost. Why, I ask you?"

cried one woman. Many others were wailing with grief. The interior of the sports hall was covered with small square pillows, each embroidered with a name and year of birth of a missing Srebrenica man -- more than 8,000 in total. For their part, Serbs marked July 11 as the day when they "liberated" the town in what they regarded as "Serb land" from time immemorial, although Srebrenica and large parts of eastern Bosnia had a Moslem majority until 1992. Reporters visiting Srebrenica saw only a handful of people in the streets. Serb authorities repopulated the town with Serbs who fled from parts of Bosnia now under the control of the Moslem-Croat federation. In a Srebrenica auditorium, adorned by the Bosnian Serb Republic flag and a portrait of its president, Radovan Karadzic, 50 people listened to an actor reading a World War One victory speech by a Serb military commander. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, a Moslem, appeared at a Sarajevo service commemorating Srebrenica and broke down and wept at the end

of his comments, broadcast on state television. "Let us remember all innocent victims of Srebrenica and all innocent women and children killed by a criminal's hand in this imposed and unjust war," he said. They will not be forgotten."