Team Uncovers Mass Grave in Eastern Bosnia

Human skulls jutted in a ragged row from an embankment excavated Tuesday by U.N. war crimes investigators who have begun exposing mass graves of Muslims and adding evidence against Bosnian Serbs under investigation for war crimes.

The stench of putrefying human remains hung in the air at the forest site 21 miles northwest of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Investigators believe that sites around the town contain evidence of Europe’s worst war atrocity since the Nazi Holocaust, committed when Serbian forces overran the U.N. “safe area” a year ago. Prosecutors say as many as 8,000 men and boys were killed.

The 15-member investigative team set up camp Sunday in the Cerska forest to corroborate testimony by survivors and seek evidence against suspects indicted by a war crimes tribunal, including Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and political leader Radovan Karadzic.