270 Bodies Exhumed From Bosnia Grave

Clothing and documents found indicate the victims were mostly civilian Muslims killed by local Serb troops between April and June 1992 in and around the eastern town of Zvornik.
Experts have dug more than 12 feet deep and expect to dig at least three feet deeper, said Murat Hurtic, the head of the regional branch of the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons. Work is expected to be completed within four weeks.
The site is a secondary grave where bodies initially buried elsewhere were moved to.

The remains are being transferred to the northern town of Tuzla for DNA analysis.

About 250,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed during the war between local Muslims, Croats and Serbs that began in 1992 and ended three and a half years later. So far, forensic experts have exhumed 16,500 bodies from more than 300 mass graves throughout Bosnia.

Most of those accused of committing or ordering these killings are still at large, including Radovan Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnia’s Serbs and Gen. Ratko Mladic, his military commander.