- Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: MASS GRAVE IS FOUND CONTAINING MORE THAN 50 MOSLEM CIVILIANS
- Date: 2nd September 1996
- Summary: LAZETE, BOSNIA (SEPTEMBER 2, 1996) (RTV (A) - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV VIEWS OF GRAVE SITE 0.05 2. MV VIEWS OF EXCAVATORS AT WORK (10 SHOTS) 1.09 3. INVESTIGATION TEAM LEADER BILL HAGLUND SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 1.43 4. SLV EXCAVATORS CARRY BODY BAG FROM GRAVE SITE TO WAITING TRUCK (3 SHOTS) 1.53 TRANSCRIPT SEQ 3. I WONT GUESS HOW MANY NUMBERS THERE ARE I'M SURE THEY'LL BE IN 50 MAYBE MORE IN EXCESS OF THAT THE GRAVE IS QUITE DEEP GOES DOWN A METRE AND A HALF - TWO METERS AND WE ARE JUST GETTING BODIES EXPOSED RIGHT NOW." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: LAZETE, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Story Text: INTRO: Hague war crimes tribunal investigators in Bosnia on Monday (September 2) found a mass grave containing the bodies of more than 50 Moslem civilians.
Investigators excavating the grave in the village of Lazete, near Srebrenica, said they believed there was proof that the bodies are those of Moslems executed after fleeing the Eastern Bosnian town and former UN safe haven when it fell into hands of the Bosnin Serb army during the summer of 1995.
Investigation team leader Bill Haglund said there may be move than 50 bodies buried at Lazete and that the grave was very deep.
He said the investigation work had only just begun.
The bodies unearthed by the excavation team were blindfolded with their hands tied.
This mass grave site is one of the biggest in the area and the team is said to have found strong evidence of war crimes.
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