Monday, November 5, 2007

BOSNIAN FORENSIC EXPERTS EXUMED 129 BODIES OF GENOCIDE VICTIMS FROM MASS GRAVE IN ZVORNIK

ZVORNIK, Bosnia (November 5,2007) - Bosnian authorities say forensic experts have exhumed more than 120 bodies of genocide victims from a mass grave near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik.

Officials said that 16 complete and 113 incomplete skeletons were found. The remains are believed to be those of the Bosnian civilians from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica mass murdered by the genocidal Serbian aggressor in 1995,during the Serbian aggression against Bosnia.

"So far we have exhumed 16 complete and 113 incomplete skeletons," Murat Hurtic of the Bosnian Missing Persons Commission told press.

The exhumation of bodies from the site in Kamenica village, near the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, began two weeks ago and is expected to continue for another ten days, Hurtic said.

It is the 10th so-called secondary grave found in Kamenica,The genocidal Serbian aggressor murdered an estimated 10,000 Bosnian civilians after capturing the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, an enclave the United Nations had declared a safe area.

This mass grave near Zvornik is one of several so-called secondary graves were the Serbian aggressor reburied genocide victims in order to cover up the mass murder.

The Srebrenica mass murder is considered an act of genocide by the UN war crimes tribunal and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.

About 3,000 remains of genocide victims have been identified and reburied. The partial remains of 5,000 more genocide victims are still waiting to be identified.

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