- Title: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/FILE: New mass grave discovered in Kaldrmica
- Date: 9th December 2010
- Summary: KALDRMICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (DECEMBER 8, 2010) (REUTERS) EARTH MOVER WORKING FORENSICS WORKING IN MASS GRAVE VARIOUS OF FORENSIC EXPERTS COLLECTING HUMAN REMAINS FROM MASS GRAVE GROUP OF WOMEN FROM SREBRENICA WHO ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THEIR RELATIVES ARRIVING AT MASS GRAVE WOMEN WALKING DOWN IN MASS GRAVE WOMEN LOOKING AT BODIES IN MASS GRAVE WOMAN LOOKING WOMAN TRYING TO RECOGNISE PRESERVED PARTS OF CLOTHING WOMAN STANDING BY UNEARTHED HUMAN BONES WOMAN LOOKING AT BODY REMAINS WOMEN WALKING AROUND UNEARTHED BODY REMAINS WOMEN STANDING AROUND UNEARTHED REMAINS (SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) MUNIRA SUBASIC WHO IS STILL LOOKING FOR REMAINS OF HER YOUNGER SON, SAYING: "When I go to visit a mass grave I feel hopeful I will find his body, and when I come to the mass grave I wish I don't find him. Let me search for him more, there is little hope left." FORENSIC CLEANING EARTH AROUND BONES BONES PROTECTED WITH PLASTIC BAGS (SOUNDBITE) (Bosnian) SUHRA SINANOVIC WHO LOST 23 FAMILY MEMBERS AND RELATIVES AND STILL WAITING TO FIND 8 OF THEM, SAYING: "When I'm approaching a mass grave I begin to totter in fear I would find someone I knew." GROUP OF WOMEN AT SITE VARIOUS OF EXHUMATION (5 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 24th December 2010 12:00
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- Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVACWZ1UHBSZOFG1BNDGP1LM5HP4
- Story Text: More than fifteen years have passed since the Srebrenica massacre in which some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were executed and experts are still discovering hidden mass graves today (Wednesday December 8).
Relatives of the victims continue to search for their remains which were buried across various parts of eastern Bosnia.
This new mass grave is in the Bosnian village of Kaldrmica. Forensic experts believe it contains victims of the 1995 massacre.
Complete bodies and bullet cartridges at the site indicate that this is a primary mass grave, which means that victims were buried at this location following their execution.
Ten complete bodies have been exhumed so far. Six more were still buried.
For many women who lost their husbands, children, fathers and brothers this is a familiar scene. They have been visiting mass graves since the end of the 1992-95 war.
Munira Subasic is still looking for the body of her younger son who was 18 when the massacre took place.
"When I go to visit a mass grave I feel hopeful I will find his body, and when I come to the mass grave I wish I don't find him. Let me search for him more, there is a little hope left," said Munira.
The hope that their loved ones may have miraculously survived the killing can only die if their remains have been exhumed and positively DNA-matched.
"When I'm approaching a mass grave I begin to totter in fear I would find someone I knew," said Suhra Sinanovic, who is still looking for eight relatives.
23 of them were killed on July 11 when Bosnian Serb forces led by fugitive general Ratko Mladic slaughtered around 8,000 Muslim men and boys when they captured the eastern town of Srebrenica which was declared a United Nation-protected zone.
The United Nation's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic for genocide in the 1995 massacre.
He is still at large and the court's chief prosecutor stepped up the pressure on Serbia on Monday demanding Belgrade take a more pro-active approach to arrest him.
Catching Mladic is a key condition to Serbia starting applying for EU membership.
The trial of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic started in the Hague this year. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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