Remains in Srebrenica Grave Hit 207, New Mass Ground Found
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Srebrenica witnessed Europe’s worst massacres since WW II. |
SARAJEVO,
August 3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - At least 207 bodies have
been exhumed from a mass grave found last month near the Bosnian town
of Srebrenica, site of Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.
Another grave with more than 100 bodies has been discovered nearby, a
forensic expert said Saturday, August 3, 2002.
During
the past two weeks "we have exhumed parts of skeletons of at
least 207 Srebrenica victims," Murat Hurtic, a member of the
Muslim-led state commission for missing persons, told Agence
France-Presse (AFP).
Some
of the bones were of hands bound together by wire, and bullets were
also found in the grave in the village of Kamenica, near Srebrenica,
he 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 for half a century.
So
far, more than 6,000 bodies have been exhumed from numerous mass
graves around Srebrenica, but only some 300 have been identified.
Hurtic
earlier said that most of the skeletons were incomplete,
"probably crushed by bulldozers" when the victims were
buried.
He
said work would continue until Tuesday, August 6, 2002, and at least
20 more bodies were expected to be found in the Kamenica grave, where
remains had been compressed into a hole four-by-four meters (yards)
wide, AFP reported.
The
commission had "reliable proof" that the remains were
transported to this grave from another, initial burial site, he added.
The
expert said another new mass grave containing at least 100 bodies was
found in the Srebrenica vicinity, adding that exhumation would begin
next week.
"It
will be very difficult to establish the exact number of victims as in
some cases bodies had been removed from one mass grave to several
others," said Amor Masovic, the commission's head.
"In
the case of one male victim we found his legs in one, the head in
another and the rest of the skeleton in a third mass grave"
around Srebrenica, he added.
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 UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Both are still at large.
Last
year, the UN tribunal sentenced Bosnian Serb general Radoslav Krstic
to 46 years in jail on charges of genocide over the Srebrenica
atrocities.
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