Forensic Experts Uncover Mass Grave
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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Forensic experts discovered a mass grave in Bosnia-Herzegovina that may contain up to 100 bodies of Muslims killed in the country’s 1992-95 war, officials said.
Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons, said the grave was found Monday near the Serb-held village of Kamenica, 35 miles north of Sarajevo. “We believe they were Muslims killed in Srebrenica in 1995,” he said.
Srebrenica was declared a U.N. “safe haven,” and Muslims flocked there to escape Serb attacks. But Bosnian Serb troops overran the town, and up to 8,000 Muslims were believed killed.
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