SARAJEVO,
June 5 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Forensic experts reported
Thursday, June 5, discovering a new mass grave in eastern Bosnia
believed to contain some 150 bodies of Muslims, all war-time detainees
of a nearby Bosnian Serb torture camp.
Some
43 bodies were exhumed from the mass grave near the town of Vlasenica,
120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Sarajevo, stressed Amor Masovic,
head of the Bosnian Muslim commission for missing people.
"Several
bullets were also found along with the skeletons," he added.
"We
expect to find some 150 remains in the coming days. We believe the
victims were Bosnian Muslims killed in mid-1992 after being detained in
Susica camp," Masovic said.
This
is the largest mass grave discovered in the area, he said, noting that
the town's 1,100 Muslims were still listed as missing, reported Agence
France-Presse (AFP).
After
capturing mainly Muslim Vlasenica at the beginning of Bosnia's 1992-95
war, Bosnian Serbs started persecuting all the town's non-Serbs and set
up a detention facility in Susica, a pre-war military warehouse.
According
to the International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
some 8,000 non-Serbs, mostly Muslims, were held in the Susica camp from
late May 1992 until October the same year.
The
commander of the Susica camp Dragan Nikolic, a Bosnian Serb detained by
the Hague-based ICTY, currently awaits trial for crimes against
humanity.
He
is charged with killing, raping and torturing Muslims and other non-Serb
detainees in the camp.
Since
the end of Bosnia's war, experts from the Bosnian Muslim commission for
missing people exhumed remains of 16,500 bodies from 273 mass graves.
