BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR ELISABETH REHN VISITS MASS GRAVE IN KRAVICA

Record ID: 337738

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR ELISABETH REHN VISITS MASS GRAVE IN KRAVICA
  • Date: 4th February 1996
  • Summary: SREBRENICA AND KRAVICA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FEBRUARY 4, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) SREBRENICA 1. SV SREBRENICA / DAMAGED BUILDINGS, RUBBISH IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 0.12 KRAVICA 2. SV UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR ELISABETH REHN WALKING UP HILL WITH GROUP (2 SHOTS) 0.21 3. SV REHN INSPECTING SITE OF ALLEGE
  • Embargoed: 19th February 1996 12:00
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  • Location: KRAVICA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVADYMOH4QKW2DJ7A0NNDDBY97N9
  • Story Text: United Nations (UN) Human Rights investigator Elisabeth Rehn, leading member of a special commission set up to find out the fate of thousands of people missing in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, visited a mass grave in Kravica, Bosnia on Sunday (February 4).

    After walking through skulls and bones strewn across the ground, some of which were covered in pieces of clothing, Rehn said "a human tragedy has taken place here." "I am a little bit concerned," she added, "there is nothing here to indicate these are the bodies of soldiers." Passports and documents were also found on the ghostly site, as well as rocket-propelled grenades.

    Rehn also visited Srebrebica on Sunday, seeking news of 8,000 Moslem men, missing since the town fell to the Serbs last July.

    Pressure has been growing from the families of some 3,000 missing people in Croatia and up to 25,000 in Bosnia, who want to be put out of the misery of not knowing whether their loved ones are dead or alive.

    Women refugees from Srebrenica, overrun by Serbs in July, wrecked Red Cross offices in Tuzla last week in a protest to back demands to know the fate of thousands of men from the former Moslem enclave in east Bosnia.

    A commission has now been set up to deal with the special process on missing persons, which aims to help open mass graves in Bosnia and Croatia and identify as many of the corpses and remains as possible.

    The U.N. commission will work closely with human rights monitors of the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Hague-based U.N. war crimes tribunal.


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