BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE SERB MEMBER OF BOSNIA'S NEW THREE-MAN PRESIDENCY READY TO COOPERATE/MORE MASS GRAVES EXHUMED

Record ID: 646165

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: THE SERB MEMBER OF BOSNIA'S NEW THREE-MAN PRESIDENCY READY TO COOPERATE/MORE MASS GRAVES EXHUMED
  • Date: 8th October 1996
  • Summary: PALE AND AHATOVICI, NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (OCTOBER 8, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) PALE 1. SV OF PALE/ BOSNIAN SERB PARLIAMENT BUILDING 0.06 2. SV THE SERB MEMBER OF BOSNIA'S NEW THREE-MAN PRESIDENCY, MOMCILO KRAJISNIK WITH GERMAN AMBASSADOR 0.11 3. MCU KRAJISNIK SAYING I HAVE THE INTENTION TO SEND THIS (DECLARATION) TO THE OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ASSEMBLY AND, IF THEY AGREE, THAT WE SHOULD SIGN IT AT A CEREMONY (SERBO-CROAT) 0.36 4. SV GERMAN AMBASSADOR SAYING GOODBYE/ LEAVING 0.47 AHATOVICI, NEAR SARAJEVO 5. TV/CU BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TEAM EXHUMING THE BODIES FROM GRAVE SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.59 6. SV/CU FAMILY MEMBERS LOOKING AT THE GRAVE SITE/ BODIES (3 SHOTS) 1.11 7. TV BODY TAKEN OUT OF GRAVE AND PUT INTO COFFIN 1.21 8. SV BODIES BEING TAKEN TO THE COFFINS/ PEOPLE LOOKING (3 SHOTS) 1.45 9. MCU CHIEF INVESTIGATOR DOCTOR ILIJAS DOBRACA SPEAKING, SAYING THAT THEY MANAGED TO EXHUME THE BODIES AND THAT THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFICATION WILL TAKE PLACE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS (SERBO-CROAT) 2.05 10. SLV/SV PEOPLE LOOKING AT BODIES IN COFFINS/ BODIES IN COFFINS (3 SHOTS) 2.17 11. LV OF GRAVE SITES WHICH WILL BE EXHUMED BY THE END . OF OCTOBER (3 SHOTS) 2.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 23rd October 1996 13:00
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  • Location: PALE AND AHATOVICI, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Reuters ID: LVA4TKD3BX1I3I47W5P2M1MDNAWG
  • Story Text: INTRO: The Serb member of Bosnia's new three-man presidency, who sparked an angry reaction by boycotting its ceremonial first meeting, now says he is prepared to cooperate.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------- Momcilo Krajisnik, the Bosnian-Serb member of Bosnia's new three-man presidency, stayed away from last Saturday's (October 5) first meeting in Sarajevo of the collective presidency and the United States (U.S.) threatened new sanctions unless the Bosnian Serbs agreed to comply with the Dayton peace accords.

    On Tuesday, Krajisnik said he was ready to sign a declaration pledging to defend the constitution of post-war Bosnia and would recommend Serb members of Bosnia's newly-elected assembly to do the same.

    "I have the intention that I should send this to the other representatives of the assembly and, if they agree, that we should sign it at a ceremony," he said The declaration was signed on Saturday by the Moslem and Croat members of the three-person presidency.

    Foreign dignitaries waited more than three hours on Saturday for Serb representatives to appear at the ceremony in Sarajevo, but they failed to show up.

    Meanwhile, Bosnian government investigators exhumed sixteen bodies from an alleged mass grave site at Ahatovici near Sarajevo on Tuesday.

    The team began working at the site on Monday and dug up the first of the bodies today. Sixteen bodies were dug up in total.

    They are thought to be the bodies of Bosnian civilians killed during fighting in July 1992.

    The chief investigator Dr Ilijas Dobraca said that they managed to exhume the bodies and the process of identification will take place over the next few days.

    Family members gathered at the site to watch the exhumation amid tearful scenes.


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