The Unfolding Shame of Radovan Karadzic:More Mass Graves Found in Srebrenica-Bratunac Area June 2004
Digest of Stories, June 2004:
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[PHOTO]: Bosnian forensic expert Murat Hurtic, a member of the Bosnian
Commission for Missing Persons, inspects body remains found at a
mass-grave site in the village of Sandici near the eastern Bosnian town of
Bratunac, 30 miles (50 kms) north of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, June 16,
2004. Forensic experts have exhumed 16 bodies buried in a drainage canal
near the road to Srebrenica. Most of the remains are believed to be
those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during the fall of
the town. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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[PHOTO]: Bosnian forensic experts inspect body remains found at a
mass grave site in the village of Sandici near the eastern Bosnian town of
Bratunac, (30 miles) 50 kms north of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, June 16,
2004. Forensic experts have exhumed 16 bodies buried in a drainage canal
near the road to Srebrenica. Most of the remains are believed to be
those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during the fall of
the town. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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[PHOTO]: Bosnian woman Nura Beganovic weeps as she tries to identify
her brother who has been missing since July 1995, near a mass-grave site
in the village of Sandici near the eastern Bosnian town of Bratunac,
30 miles (50 kms) north of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, June 16, 2004.
Forensic experts exhumed so far 16 bodies buried in a drainage canal
near the road to Srebrenica. Most of the remains are believed to be
those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during the fall
of the town. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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BBC Monitoring International Reports
June 17, 2004
MASS GRAVE FOUND IN NORTHWEST BOSNIA
Source: Onasa news agency web site, Sarajevo, in English 17 Jun 04
Sarajevo, June 17 -- Forensic experts have found a mass grave
in northwestern Bosnia believed to contain the remains of Muslims
killed by Serb forces at the beginning of the 1992-95 war, an
official said Thursday (17 June).
"In one section of the grave we found several complete skeletons and
in another a large number of skeletal remains including arms, legs
and skulls," said Jasmin Odobasic, of the Bosnian Muslim commission
for missing people.
The grave, in an inactive part of an iron mine near the northwestern town
of Prijedor, appeared to have been disturbed following the initial burial,
he added.
The commission had received information that some 200 civilians from
Prijedor were initially buried in the grave but Odobasic said it was
too early to say if all the remains would be found.
Prijedor and its region contained three notorious concentration camps
and was the scene of terrible crimes against the non-Serb population
during the war.
Some 18,000 bodies have been exhumed from over 300 mass graves
throughout Bosnia, most of them Muslims, according to forensic teams.
According to the International Commission for Missing People there are
some 25,000 people still missing since the war.
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06/04/04 FTV News. Bosnian television station from Sarajevo
Exhumation In BiH Continues
The FBiH Commission for missing persons discovered yet another mass grave
in the area of Rogatica. The mass grave was found deep in the woods,
at the location Dizdareve Njive, where it is suspected that Bosniaks
from the settlements of Senjani were buried after they were killed
on June 19, 1992. The exhumation team so far exhumed nine bodies from
this mass grave. The same team is supposed to open another 6 mass graves
and several single graves in the Rogatica area. The Federation exhumation
team during the last four days at the city cemetery in Bosanski Brod
exhumed 28 bodies and remains of Bosniak civilians and of HVO soldiers
who were killed in 1992. Preliminary identification identified some
15 victims, but their names will not be published until DNA analysis
confirms their identity.
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06/06/04 VECERNJI LIST. Evening Paper, Croatian national daily from Zagreb
28 Bodies Exhumed in Bosanski Brod
The Federation Missing Persons Committee and the Orasje Canton
Prosecution expert team exhumed 28 bodies at the Bosanski Brod
city cemetery. It was mostly bodies of Bosniak civilians and of
HVO (Bosnian Croat wartime armed forces) soldiers killed in 1992.
Three women's bodies were also exhumed among the 28 bodies. The
bodies of 30 Bosniak civilians from Sijekovac were not found.
Fifteen of the bodies have already been identified but the
names will not be released before the DNA analysis is conducted,
a Federation Committee member, Marinko Bakovic said. The
Bosanski Brod exhumations will be continued next month. (summary)
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06/06/04 OSLOBODJENJE, Liberation, Bosnian national daily from Sarajevo
FBiH Missing Persons Committee President on New Locations of Mass Gravesites
Amor Masovic, the FBiH Missing Persons Committee President, said he has
visited the 33 new locations of mass gravesites in Srebrenica and Bratunac
with the RS Srebrenica Investigation Committee. "We determined that we
did not know about 11 of the mass gravesites", Masovic said. According
to
Masovic, the Federation Committee did not know at all about 8 of the sites
while they had not known the exact locations of the three other sites.
Three out of the 11 new locations are tertiary sites. The Federation
Committee currently knows about 40 locations of mass gravesites [related
to the Srebrenica massacres]. Masovic believes 3,000 victims will be
exhumed from the sites. "Even though we believe there are still 40 more
unknown mass gravesite locations in Srebrenica and Bratunac, we are still
satisfied with the results of the Srebrenica Investigation Committee.
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06/06/04. OSLOBODJENJE. Liberation, Bosnian national daily from Sarajevo
Interview with Amor Masovic, Fed. BiH Missing Persons Committee President
Q: Who did the Srebrenica Investigation Committee get the information
on the locations of mass gravesites from?
A: They mostly received information from Bosniak witnesses and their
families. They also received information from Zvornik, Vlasenica,
and Bratunac survivors who went to Srebrenica in 1992. I believe
that the total number of Srebrenica victims will be around 8,500.
According to the International Committee for Missing Persons,
there are 7,779 names of missing persons from Srebrenica. Their
number is based on the blood samples taken from the victims'
families
Q: Will the Srebrenica Investigation Committee be able to find out
the number and identities of the individuals killed in Srebrenica.
A: No, I do not believe they will. So far, the missing persons committees
have only looked for "their" missing persons. The cooperation between
the
committees might be better after the Srebrenica Investigation Committee
turns in the report to the RS Government. For example, if the Federation
Committee has information on the locations of graves that the Committee
in Banja Luka is interested about, it would be logical for the Federation
Committee to show the Banja Luka Committee where the location is and vice
versa. Milan Bogdanovic, the Srebrenica Investigation Committee President
is supported by the OHR. Military and civilian authorities of the RS
must be forced to reveal the locations of all mass gravesites in the RS.
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http://www.tfeagle.army.mil/tfeno. 06/14/04 BH RADIO NEWS
Bosnian radio station from Sarajevo
Exhumation Based on Srebrenica Commission's Report Starts in Bratunac
The FBiH Commission for Seeking for Missing Persons started the exhumation
of remains of Srebrenica victims from mass gravesite in Sandici, near
Bratunac, on Monday. The exhumation is based on the information provided
within the Srebrenica Commission's report on the events in Srebrenica
in July 1995. It is being assessed that this is a primary gravesite
that might contain some 20 bodies of Bosniaks who were executed near
the gravesite. During the first day of the exhumation, no evidence that
proves this site is hiding the bodies of killed Bosniaks has been found.
"This should be a primary gravesite. We expect to find entire bodies.
There is a possibility of finding clothes and shoes with the victims.
Due to the fact that those killed were actually executed right after
they were arrested, there is also a possibility of finding certain
items with them, or even some IDs, which would accelerate the
identification process," the President of the FBiH Commission for
Seeking Missing Persons, Amor Masovic, said.
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06/15/04. RTRS BANJA LUKA NEWS (RTRS, SDS)
Serb Radio-TV from Banja Luka, Received from FOB Connor OSINT
Exhumation of Srebrenica Victims to Begin in Sandici
"The preparation for exhumation of Srebrenica's victims, who
were killed in 1995, started at the location of Sandici, between
Bratunac and Konjevic Polje," the Chief of the Tuzla team of
the FBiH Commission for search for missing persons, Murat Hurtic,
confirmed on Tuesday. He said this was a mass grave with
approximately 20 Bosniak victims. This is the first grave
out of eight graves cited in the final report of the RS Commission.
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BBC Monitoring International Reports
June 9, 2004
EXPERTS RECOVER 30 BODIES OF SREBRENICA MUSLIMS FROM SITE IN EASTERN BOSNIA
Source: Federation News Agency, Sarajevo, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1524
gmt 9 Jun 04
SARAJEVO, 9 June -- The Tuzla-based department of the (Bosnia-Hercegovina)
Federation Commission for Missing Persons today completed the exhumation
at Jasikovaca site (under Buljim) in the Bratunac Municipality (eastern
Bosnia).
According to the department's head, Murat Hurtic, it is believed that
the bodily remains of all 30 Bosniaks (Muslims) from Srebrenica - who
were pushed down a ravine and into a canal after their legs had been
bound with wire in July 1995 - have been recovered.
Returning from the site, commission members found the bodily remains
of another victim at a (nearby) site in Pobudje/Kamenica.
The exhumation at sites in the Milici municipality is scheduled to
start tomorrow.
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Deutsche Presse-Agentur June 8, 2004, Tuesday
Srebrenica victims exhumed in eastern Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Jun 8 (dpa) -- Bosnian forensics experts on Tuesday began to
exhume the remains of 30 Bosnian Moslems killed in eastern Bosnia at
the end of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The head of the
Regional Commission on Missing Persons, Murat Hurtic, confirmed Tuesday
that a team was working on the grave between the towns of Srebrenica
and Bratunac in Eastern Bosnia. The victims were killed while trying
to escape the 1995 massacre in the former Bosnian Moslem enclave of
Srebrenica, in which Bosnian Serbs slaughtered up to 8,000 Moslem men
after capturing the area on 11 July 1995, Hurtic said. The group of men
was among some 15,000 civilians - including women,children and elderly -
who were heading towards the northern Bosnian city of Tuzla after being
expelled from their Srebrenica homes by Bosnian Serb troops, according
to Hurtic. After spotting the men near the village of Buljim, the
Bosnian Serb soldiers separated them from the crowd and killed them
immediately by a firing squad. One man survived the squad fire and
tried to escape, but Serb soldiers found and killed him with an axe
a day later, according to witnesses. The bodies of 29 men, according to
Hurtic, were found in a shallow grave, while one body - of a man killed
by an axe - was found some 300 metres away from the grave. The Commission
set up to investigate the Srebrenica massacre and locate the mass
graves has so far discovered 31 new mass graves in the Srebrenica area,
Bosnian Serb authorities announced recently. Bosnian forensics experts
have already exhumed the remains of several thousand Srebrenica victims,
filling more than 7,000 bags with exhumed bones, according to the
State Commission on Missing Persons. From those exhumed, some 1,600
Srebrenica victims have been identified so far, while more than
5,000 people from Srebrenica have remained unaccounted for.
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