BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: INVESTIGATORS CONCLUDE EXCAVATION OF MASS GRAVE

Record ID: 646440

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: INVESTIGATORS CONCLUDE EXCAVATION OF MASS GRAVE
  • Date: 19th July 1996
  • Summary: CERSKA AND NOVA KASABA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JULY 19, 1996) (RTV(A) - ACCESS ALL) CERSKA 1. LV BULLDOZER NEAR METAL STORAGE CONTAINER 0.06 2. SLV INVESTIGATORS LOADING BODY BAGS ONTO BULLDOZER (2 SHOTS) 0.16 3. SV BULLDOZER DRIVING TO METAL STORAGE CONTAINER 0.20 4. SV BODIES LOADED INTO STORAGE CONTAINER (2 SHOTS) 0.26 5. LV MEN LOADING WHEELBARROWS ONTO BULLDOZER 0.31 6. SLV INVESTIGATORS CLOSING STORAGE CONTAINER 0.33 7. SLV/LV INVESTIGATOR MAKING NOTES (2 SHOTS) 0.41 8. GV SITE WITH BULLDOZER AND STORAGE CONTAINER 0.48 9. SCU INVESTIGATOR WILLIAM HAGLUND SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.10 10. LV IFOR (NATO IMPLEMENTATION FORCE) SECURITY/ SV CLEANING GUN/ SV TALKING ON TELEPHONE (3 SHOTS) 1.28 11. LV BULLDOZER AND VEHICLES LEAVING SITE (2 SHOTS) 1.37 NOVA KASABA 12. PAN/SV INVESTIGATORS VISITING SITE/ IFOR TROOPS (5 SHOTS) 2.02 SEQUENCE 9 TRANSCRIPT: HAGLUND: "WE HAVE REMOVED 154 INDIVIDUALS FROM THIS GRAVE AT CERSKA AND WE WILL DETERMINE THEIR AGE, SEX AND STATURE AND THE WAY IN WHICH THEY DIED, PATTERNS OF INJURIES. WE WILL THEN BEGIN THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 3rd August 1996 13:00
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  • Location: CERSKA AND NOVA KASABA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
  • Reuters ID: LVA2HM5MQ0EKL7MXR02RLXK29XB5
  • Story Text: INTRO: Investigators at a mass grave site in Bosnia have concluded their excavation of the site after finding 154 bodies.

    The painstaking investigation into exactly how they died and who they were will now begin.

    A team of experts finished their investigation of a mass grave site at Cerska, Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday (July 19) - it was the first of seven locations to be investigated.

    Team leader William Haglund said the investigators would now further examine the bodies to determine their age, sex and the reasons they died.

    The remains of 154 people were collected and put into bags and stored in a refrigerated unit.

    The bodies were due to be transported to Tuzla for further examination.

    The Cerska investigation began on July 6. The next suspected mass grave to be investigated by the team is in Nova Kasaba where there are believed to be up to 2,500 bodies.


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