New Muslims Mass Grave Unearthed In Bosnia

This is the largest mass grave discovered in the area, he said, noting that the town’s 1,100 Muslims were still listed as missing, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

After capturing mainly Muslim Vlasenica at the beginning of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, Bosnian Serbs started persecuting all the town’s non-Serbs and set up a detention facility in Susica, a pre-war military warehouse.

According to the International Criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) some 8,000 non-Serbs, mostly Muslims, were held in the Susica camp from late May 1992 until October the same year.

The commander of the Susica camp Dragan Nikolic, a Bosnian Serb detained by the Hague-based ICTY, currently awaits trial for crimes against humanity.

He is charged with killing, raping and torturing Muslims and other non-Serb detainees in the camp.

Since the end of Bosnia’s war, experts from the Bosnian Muslim commission for missing people exhumed remains of 16,500 bodies from 273 mass graves.

In October 2002, Bosnian and international forensic experts said they had completed the exhumation of what they described as the largest mass grave found in Bosnia since the country’s 1992-95 war.

The mass grave was found in the eastern village of Kamenica, near the site of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, an official said.

The remains were believed to account for over 300 people and included 141 complete skeletons.