World IN BRIEF : BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA : U.S. to Watch Mine Said to Hold Bodies
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
U.S. intelligence agencies will begin watching a mine in northwest Bosnia-Herzegovina where U.S. newspapers reported that Serbs may be trying to hide bodies exhumed from mass graves, the Defense Department said. The newspapers quoted non-Serbs at Ljubija as saying that Serbs had exhumed bodies from mass graves in the area and taken them to the nearby mine. A U.S. spokesman warned Serbs and other factions that they cannot escape war crimes prosecution by trying to destroy mass grave sites.
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