SARAJEVO - Several dozen skeletons have been exhumed from two mass graves in Bosnia believed to contain victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, a judicial official said Wednesday. Four complete and 44 incomplete skeletons were uncovered in one mass grave in the Zeleni Jadar area, 15 kilometres (10 miles) south of Srebrenica, Jasna Subotic, spokeswoman for the local prosecutorÂ’s office, said.
The remains were found crushed and compressed -- suggesting that the bodies might have been interred elsewhere, then exhumed and re-buried with the use of bulldozers in a bid to conceal their fate. ‘The remains are so badly damaged that it is even possible that they have been reburied twice,’ Subotic said, adding that forensic experts had also collected two bags of small bone fragments.
Earlier this week, a smaller mass grave -- near the Potocari memorial cemetery where more than 2,400 identified Srebrenica victims lie buried -- was found, with five remains plus several detached bones, the spokeswoman said. |