Sixty Srebrenica Victims Found in Bosnia Mass Grave

SNAGOVO, Bosnia (Reuters) - Forensic experts said on Monday they had found the remains of about 60 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.

"We expect by the end of the day to have about 70 complete and incomplete bodies exhumed," said Murat Hurtic, the leader of a regional forensic team of the Commission for Missing Persons in Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation.

Up to 100 bodies could be in the grave, he said.

Hurtic said the victims were Muslims from a group of 720 men who fled Srebrenica in July 1995 and were taken to a school in the eastern village of Grbavci, where they were executed by the Bosnian Serb forces. Two men survived the slaughter.

Bosnian Serb forces overran the former U.N. "safe zone" of Srebrenica in July 1995 and killed thousands of Muslims in what is seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic, both indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for genocide at Srebrenica, are still at large.

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(26.10.2004)

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