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New
Mass Grave of Bosnian Muslims Uncovered in Srebrenica
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So
far, some 6,000 Muslims’ bodies have been exhumed from numerous
mass graves around Srebrenica
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SARAJEVO,
July 24 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Forensic experts in Bosnia
said Tuesday, July 23, they had discovered a mass grave of Muslim
victims near the site of the notorious Srebrenica massacres seven
years ago.
"We
have reason to believe that the grave contains over 100 bodies of the
Srebrenica victims," Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim-led
state commission for missing persons, told Agence France-Presse (AFP)
in reference to one of the most notorious wartime massacres by Serb
forces during the Balkan war.
So
far, the remains of some 15 people have been found in the grave,
discovered Monday, July 22, near Srebrenica, Hurtic said.
He
said some of the skeletons were incomplete, and that others were found
with their hands bound by wire.
The
commission said it had "reliable proof" that the remains
were transported to the grave from another location, where they had
been buried after being killed, Hurtic said.
The
victims are believed to be Bosnian Muslims killed by Bosnian Serb
forces when they captured Srebrenica under the eye of U.N.
peacekeepers in July 1995.
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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