Article: Forensics experts find mass grave with dozens of bodies of Srebrenica massacre victims


AP Worldstream
10-25-2004
Dateline: TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Forensics experts said Monday they found 78 bodies of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave they believe contains even more remains.

Experts exhumed 43 complete and 35 incomplete bodies from the mass grave in Snagovo, near Zvornik and the border with Serbia, said Murat Hurtic, an official with the missing persons commission in the Muslim-Croat part of Bosnia.

The site may contain up to 100 bodies, Hurtic said.

Based on documents found next to the bodies, the dead appeared to be Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 massacre in nearby Srebrenica, the worst slaughter of civilians in Europe since World War II. More than ...

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