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.