Which locations were used as execution sites during the Srebrenica genocide?

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Two women in headscarves embrace and mourn over a green coffin among rows of identical coffins at the Potocari cemetery during the Srebrenica massacre mass funeral. — Srebrenica genocide Women mourning over a coffin before the mass funeral for 136 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, 2015.

During the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces carried out mass executions of Bosniak men and boys at various locations primarily situated north of Srebrenica, along a 35-mile band near the Drina River.

The identified execution sites include:

A football field in Bratunac1
Several meadows and fields near Vlasenica and Nova Kasaba1
A warehouse in Kravica1
A factory in Karakaj1
A school in Orahovac1
A dirt road in the Cerska Valley1
A cultural center in Pilica1
A state farm in the village of Branjevo1

Following these atrocities, Bosnian Serb forces engaged in a systematic effort to conceal the crimes by using heavy machinery to disinter remains from mass graves and relocate them to secondary sites to hide evidence of the genocide.2