Exhumation at suspected mass grave in Sarajevo starts

SARAJEVO The exhumation at the city landfill in Novo Sarajevo started on Monday after human bones were found at this location. The families, which believe that this site may contain the remains of their loved ones, claim that the Sarajevo landfill contains the remains of over dozen Serbs who were killed during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Exhumation at suspected mass grave in Sarajevo starts The bodies of the victims were transferred from other locations to the landfill. Lejla Cengic, spokesperson of the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons, told news agency Fena that a trial digging was carried out at this locality and lasted for over three months. “The trial digging was done with machines at the depth of 30 meters where fine bones were found, which were later determined by anthropologists of the International Commission for Missing Persons to belong to humans,” Cengic said. The exhumation is conducted by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Prosecutor's Office on the order of the court. As reported by RTRS, the public broadcaster of Bosnia's Serb entity, the RS, the families waited for over an hour in front of the gate of the landfill on Monday, but they were not allowed to access the location where the exhumation has been launched. The security guards did not allow the entrance to numerous media crews explaining that they should have asked for permission from the director of the Public Utility Company Sarajevo earlier. “This is unprecedented demonstration of force because the prosecutor agrees that the location can be accessed,” Milan Mandic, president of an association gathering families of murdered Serbs in the Sarajevo-Romanija region, told reporters. Milutin Misic, a member of the Collegium of the director of the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons, said that the Sarajevo landfill most probably contains a primary and a secondary grave. Mandic told the Oslobodjenje newspaper that he believed the remains of several dozen missing Sarajevo Serbs would be found, and noted that 350 are still listed as missing. According to him, the data gathered so far indicates that the victim were killed and buried in 1992. Beta Tanjug

Exhumation at suspected mass grave in Sarajevo starts

The bodies of the victims were transferred from other locations to the landfill.

Lejla Čengić, spokesperson of the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons, told news agency Fena that a trial digging was carried out at this locality and lasted for over three months.

“The trial digging was done with machines at the depth of 30 meters where fine bones were found, which were later determined by anthropologists of the International Commission for Missing Persons to belong to humans,” Čengić said.

The exhumation is conducted by the Bosnia-Herzegovina Prosecutor's Office on the order of the court.

As reported by RTRS, the public broadcaster of Bosnia's Serb entity, the RS, the families waited for over an hour in front of the gate of the landfill on Monday, but they were not allowed to access the location where the exhumation has been launched.

The security guards did not allow the entrance to numerous media crews explaining that they should have asked for permission from the director of the Public Utility Company Sarajevo earlier.

“This is unprecedented demonstration of force because the prosecutor agrees that the location can be accessed,” Milan Mandić, president of an association gathering families of murdered Serbs in the Sarajevo-Romanija region, told reporters.

Milutin Mišić, a member of the Collegium of the director of the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons, said that the Sarajevo landfill most probably contains a primary and a secondary grave.

Mandić told the Oslobođenje newspaper that he believed the remains of several dozen missing Sarajevo Serbs would be found, and noted that 350 are still listed as missing.

According to him, the data gathered so far indicates that the victim were killed and buried in 1992.