Mass Grave May Be Bosnia’s Largest

A mass grave found in eastern Bosnia this week may be the biggest discovered so far, holding the bodies of about 300 Muslim victims of the Bosnian war, government officials said Friday.

Amor Masovic, head of the state commission for missing persons, said about 200 bodies had been found by midday Friday in the grave on a small hill near the village of Glumina, close to the border with Serbia.

Masovic, who heads a team of 20 experts working at the site, said he believed that the grave contained about 100 more bodies and that there probably were other smaller graves nearby.

“We have every reason to believe that we are working on the biggest mass grave discovered so far,” he told Bosnian television earlier.

Jasmin Odobasic, deputy head of the missing persons commission, said the victims were believed to be Muslim civilians killed in 1992.

The bodies, lying side by side, were packed in plastic bags bearing the insignia of the JNA, the Yugoslav People’s Army, and Masovic said he believed the victims had been shot by the JNA, which backed the Bosnian Serb forces in the war.