BOSNIA: BODIES OF 17 MOSLEMS ARE DISCOVERED IN A BOSNIAN VILLAGE BY THE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT PATHOLOGIST AND FORENSIC TEAM

Record ID: 649353

  • Title: BOSNIA: BODIES OF 17 MOSLEMS ARE DISCOVERED IN A BOSNIAN VILLAGE BY THE BOSNIAN GOVERNMENT PATHOLOGIST AND FORENSIC TEAM
  • Date: 9th July 1996
  • Summary: SVRAKE, NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA (JULY 9, 1996) (RTV(A) GV CEMETERY 0.07 MV BODIES BEING DUG UP 0.05 MV MECHANICAL DIGGER AT WORK 0.21 SCU OF BODIES BEING UNCOVERED (5 SHOTS) 0.42 MV WOMAN WEEPING 0.46 MV PRESS 0.53 GV/MV MORE DIGGING, BONES UNCOVERED 1.00 SLV BODIES COVERED IN WHITE SHEETS 1.13 SLV MEN WITH SHOVELS UNCOVERING REMAINS 1.29 10 SCU WOMAN TIMA SILIC WEEPING 1.33 MV REMAINS ARRANGED ON WHITE SHEET (4 SHOTS) 1.54 12 SLV PALLET WITH REMAINS REMOVED TO TRUCK 2.19 SCU REMAINS CARRIED TO TRUCK (2 SHOTS) 2.46 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 24th July 1996 13:00
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  • Location: SVRAKE, NEAR SARAJEVO, BOSNIA
  • Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVAS7EN73FM2QJCFWML9SSDP1Y9
  • Story Text: - INTRO: The bodies of 17 Moslems have been found in a Bosnian village. It's believed they were captured by Serbs when the Serb army entered the village in April 1992.

    ------------------------------------------------------------- The corpses were found by the Bosnian government pathologist and forensic team in the village of Svrake, 15 km northeast of Sarajevo.

    It believed most of the victims had been killed in a so-called human shield operation, when the Serb army tried to break Bosnian army defence lines near the capital Sarajevo.

    A couple of eyewitnesses who survived the Svrake massacre were helping the Bosnian pathology team who started exhuming the grave on Tuesday (July 9).

    The bodies were in poor condition and families of the victims found it difficult to identify them.
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