Team Exhumes 250 in Bosnia
Forensic experts, reconstructing a 1995 massacre in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, have finished exhuming about 250 bodies from a mass grave, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
“Although the grave was disturbed, remains of approximately 250 persons were found, some with their hands tied behind their backs,” said Kelly Moore, the spokeswoman for the United Nations in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
She said the bodies will be taken to a morgue, where they will be photographed and cataloged.
Srebrenica was a Muslim enclave in eastern Bosnia. The United Nations declared it a “safe haven” but did nothing to prevent Bosnian Serb forces from overrunning it in July 1995.
The enclave’s brutal fall left more than 7,000 Muslim men missing. The men are believed to have been systematically executed.
So far, about 2,000 bodies have been found.
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