BOSNIA: FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER SEVENTH MASS GRAVE POSSIBLY CONTAINING MUSLIM VICTIMS OF BOSNIAN CIVIL WAR
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BOSNIA: FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER SEVENTH MASS GRAVE POSSIBLY CONTAINING MUSLIM VICTIMS OF BOSNIAN CIVIL WAR
- Title: BOSNIA: FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER SEVENTH MASS GRAVE POSSIBLY CONTAINING MUSLIM VICTIMS OF BOSNIAN CIVIL WAR
- Date: 21st October 2002
- Summary: (U6) NEAR KAMENICA, BOSNIA (OCTOBER 21, 2002)(REUTERS(A) - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF INVESTIGATORS AND DIGGER AT MASS GRAVE 0.05 2. VARIOUS FORENSIC EXPERTS MEASURING AND SEARCHING MASS GRAVE (2 SHOTS) 0.22 3. BULLDOZERS DIGGING UP EARTH 4. WIDE OF INVESTIGATORS LYING BONE REMAINS ON TO SHEET 0.29 5. SMV INVESTIGATORS DIGGING AROUND REMAINS OF BODIES 0.35 6. VARIOUS, OF INVESTIGATORS WRAPPING BONES IN BODY BAGS AND CARRYING BAG AWAY 0.48 7. SLV, SFOR SOLDIERS WATCHING OPERATION 0.53 8. SMV INVESTIGATORS EVCAVATING BONES 0.59 9. SLV BULLDOZER CLEARING EARTH , PAN OF MASS GRAVE 1.15 10. CLOSE OF BONES , PAN OF BONES AND REMAINS OF CLOTHING IN SITU IN GRAVE 1.27 11. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) EVA KLOMOWSKI, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MISSING PERSONS (ICMP), ANTHROPOLOGIST, SAYING: "This is the third secondary mass grave at this site that we are working on this year and this will be probably the smallest one. Probably it's connected to the very first grave that we've done this year, because we have the same kind of soils, the same kind of grass, and for now we have 31 complete bodies and 17 body parts which means half of the body and probably we will get-we hope to get about 60 bodies 40 body parts, altogether about 100 cases." 2.16 12. WIDE OF MASS GRAVE 2.24 13. CLOSE OF BONES BURIED IN THE GROUND 2.28 13. SLV FORENSIC EXAMINERS WORKING AT SCENE 2.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 5th November 2002 12:00
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- Location: NEAR KAMENICA, BOSNIA
- Country: Bosnia
- Reuters ID: LVA4YY905S4REU9CY3I6SECG8AV5
- Story Text: Forensic experts have uncovered a seventh mass grave
site near a northeastern Bosnian village, allegedly containing
the remains of Muslims slaughtered in Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Experts at the dig on Monday (October 21) near
Kamenica, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) northeast of
Sarajevo, said they believed the human remains uncovered at
the latest site would fill up to 100 body bags.
Eva Klomowski, an anthropologist with the International
Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), said the grave was the
third mass grave found at the site this year.
"This is the third secondary mass grave at this site that
we are working on this year...and for now we have 31 complete
bodies and 17 body parts which means half of the body and
probably we will get-we hope to get about 60 bodies 40 body
parts, altogether about 100 cases," she said.
The victims are believed to have perished in the
Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, just a few months before the
end of the Bosnian war, when Serb soldiers overran the eastern
Bosnian town, then a U.N.-protected zone. Up to 8,000 Muslim
men and boys were massacred in Europe's worst slaughter of
civilians since World War II.
So far, more than 5,000 Srebrenica victims have been
exhumed from various mass graves across eastern Bosnia.
The Kamenica region is particularly daunting because of
the large number of mass graves scattered nearby.
Klomowski described the graves as "secondary"
sites-places where victims from other mass graves were brought
in order to conceal the crime from U.N. war crimes
investigators.
Bosnia's war claimed the lives of about 200,000 people.
Since the end of the conflict, close to 10,000 bodies have
been exhumed. Experts believe it could take years to identify
them all.
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