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Exhumation Completed of Biggest Mass Grave Found in Bosnia

The mass grave was found in the eastern village of Kamenica_ near the site of Europe's worst massacre since World War II

SARAJEVO, October 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Bosnian and international forensic experts said Sunday, October 7, they had completed the exhumation of what they described as the largest mass grave found in Bosnia since the country's 1992-95 war.

The mass grave was found in the eastern village of Kamenica, near the site of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, an official said.

"We filled 506 (coded) body-bags with remains found in this mass grave," Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim Commission for Missing People told Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

The remains were believed to account for over 300 people and included 141 complete skeletons, Hurtic said.

"The skeletons had their hands tied and blindfolds were also found," Hurtic said, adding that the grave was the largest found in Bosnia since the end of the war.

The victims were believed to be Muslim civilians killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed when the town of Srebrenica, officially placed under the protection of UN peacekeepers from the Netherlands, fell to Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995.

After the killings, the Bosnian Serbs buried the bodies in at least 10 large graves around the former Muslim enclave.

But in an effort to conceal the evidence, the Serbs latter removed the bodies to a number of other locations.

Most of some 6,000 remains of Srebrenica victims found so far have been exhumed from over 20 mass graves. Hundreds of them were found lying on the ground around the town.

Forensic experts earlier this year completed the exhumation of three mass graves in Kamenica, leading to the recovery of the remains of almost 850 people.

Another grave was found in the village in August and the exhumation work there will start next week, Hurtic said.

More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed after the fall of Srebrenica, in the worst massacre Europe has seen since World War II.

So far some 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from numerous mass graves around Srebrenica, but only some 300 have been identified.

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic, have both been indicted for war crimes and genocide, including the Srebrenica massacres, by The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

 

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