U.N. to Dig Up Suspected Mass Grave in Croatia
<i> Reuters</i>
NEW YORK —
A U.N. war crimes commission has decided to dig up a cornfield near Ovcara, Croatia, that investigators say could be a mass grave, the New York Times reported today.
The newspaper cited officials who said the field could hold the bodies of 300 people reportedly killed by Serbian militias after the fall of nearby Vukovar last year.
The investigation could produce evidence for a possible war crimes case, officials said.
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