BOSNIA: Forensic experts said yesterday they had unearthed the remains of 482 Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre from the third biggest mass grave found so far in the Balkan country.
"We found eight complete and 474 incomplete bodies," Murat Hurtic, head of the regional commission for missing persons said.
His team completed the exhumations from the fifth and biggest mass grave found in the village of Liplje after one month of work. The remains will now be identified by DNA analysis.
Hurtic said he believed the five Liplje graves together contained the bodies of about 800 to 1,000 Muslims who were killed by Bosnian Serb forces at the eastern Petkovci dam after fleeing Srebrenica in July 1995.
The Bosnian Serb forces, commanded by their wartime chief Ratko Mladic, slaughtered about 8,000 Muslims men and boys after taking over the former UN "safe zone" of Srebrenica on July 11th, 1995.