Garden Grave in Bosnia Held 200
Forensic experts in Bosnia said Tuesday that they have recovered the remains of about 200 Muslims from a mass grave in a garden, bringing to about 6,000 the number of exhumed victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
The Muslim-led Commission for Missing Persons has completed a two-week exhumation at the site in the eastern village of Kamenica, one of the larger mass graves containing Srebrenica victims, commission president Amor Masovic said.
The site came to light when a Muslim couple returning home after Bosnia’s 1992-95 war saw strange humps in their garden.
Srebrenica, which was declared a U.N.-protected area, was overrun in July 1995 by Bosnian Serb forces who killed as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief, Ratko Mladic, both still at large, have been indicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for the massacre.
Officials say the site is a secondary mass grave, containing bodies that had been buried elsewhere but were dug up, moved and reburied, probably to avoid discovery.
Officials had found another mass grave in Kamenica, near the town of Zvornik, and Masovic said a third has been identified in the village.
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