Scores of Bodies Reportedly Found in Mass Grave Near Bosnian Capital

Experts have exhumed more than 70 bodies from a mass grave located in Bosnian Serb-controlled territory, including those of children and disabled people, a newspaper reported Saturday.

The Muslim Commission for Missing Persons first announced that dozens of bodies had been recovered from the grave last week.

The bodies were found in a 60-foot-deep pit near the Serb-held village of Kalimanici, 20 miles east of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s capital, Sarajevo, the commission said. The bodies are believed to be those of Bosnian Muslims from the eastern town of Visegrad, brought to the site and executed by Serbian soldiers at the beginning of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.

Earlier last week, Amor Masovic, who heads the commission, said his experts expected to find remains of more than 100 victims.

Some of the victims were disabled people and the remains of at least two children also were found, the daily Dnevni Avaz said.

In neighboring Yugoslavia, which included Bosnia until about eight years ago, 67 victims found in mass graves were reburied Saturday in the town of Makovac in Kosovo.

Hundreds of ethnic Albanians gathered for the reburial of men, women and children killed last year during a Yugoslav army offensive in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic.