BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN INVESTIGATORS BEGIN EXCAVATING THE MASS GRAVE IN PAJINA KULA

Record ID: 647180

  • Title: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: BOSNIAN INVESTIGATORS BEGIN EXCAVATING THE MASS GRAVE IN PAJINA KULA
  • Date: 16th July 1996
  • Summary: PAJINA KULA AND SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (JULY 15, 1996) (RTV/ RTV (W) -- ACCESS ALL) PAJINA KULA, BOSNIA (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV SUSPECTED MASS GRAVE SITE 0.05 2. SV BOSNIAN INVESTIGATORS AT GRAVE SITE 0.10 3. CU HUMAN REMAINS 0.15 4. SV INVESTIGATORS AT GRAVE SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.28 5. CU DOCUMENTS FOUND IN MASS GRAVE 0.32 6. LV INVESTIGATORS DIGGING 0.39 7. CU HUMAN REMAINS 0.45 8. SV DISTRESSED PEOPLE LOOKING ON 0.52 9. SV INVESTIGATOR LOOKING AT REMAINS 0.58 10. LV/SV INVESTIGATORS DIGGING (2 SHOTS) 1.13 11. CU WATCH FOUND IN GRAVE 1.19 12. SV WEEPING WOMEN LOOKING AT REMAINS 1.28 13. SV INVESTIGATORS INSPECTING REMAINS 1.34 14. LV PEOPLE DIGGING IN GRAVE 1.38 15. CU HUMAN REMAINS 1.40 16. CU/SV DISTRESSED WOMAN (2 SHOTS) 1.44 17. SV PEOPLE DIGGING IN GRAVE 1.52 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA (RTV (W) - ACCESS ALL) 18. LV/MCU BOSNIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS, MOHAMED SACIRBEY, SAYING KARADZIC IS AN INDICTED WAR CRIMINAL BUT HE IS CLEARLY PARTICIPATING IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS WHEN HE SHOULD BE IN THE HAGUE DEFENDING HIMSELF TO THE WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL (ENGLISH) 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 31st July 1996 13:00
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  • Location: PAJINA KULA AND SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
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  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Reuters ID: LVAE5ZZ8JF4JS4VK3C1IGDWQGYAQ
  • Story Text: INTRO: As Bosnian investigators unearthed a suspected mass grave near Pajina Kula on Monday (July 15), Bosnia's ambassador to the United Nations said Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic should be on trial in the Hague, not participating in upcoming elections.

    ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bosnian investigators on Monday (July 15) began escavating the mass grave thought to contain up to 30 bodies in Pajina Kula, a village near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

    Meanwhile, Bosnia's ambassador to the United Nations, Muhamed Sacirbey, called on Bosnian parties to reconsider their participation in the September elections until indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic has been removed as leader of the Serb Democratic Party (SDS).

    Speaking in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, Sacirbey said the Dayton Accord clearly prohibited the participation of indicted war criminals in political or public functions.

    The ambassador added that there was a dangerous erosion of the Dayton Agreement and that matters were getting worse.

    He said he hoped that Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who departed on Monday for Belgrade, would place pressure on Yugoslavia leader Slobodan Milosevic to extradite Karadzic and Bosnian Serb army commander General Ratko Mladic to the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague.


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