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Article: Forensic experts uncover two mass graves in northwestern Bosnia
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- April 4, 2002
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Dateline: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Forensic experts discovered two mass graves in northwestern Bosnia
containing the bodies of Muslims killed during the country's 1992-
95 war.
The Muslim Commission for Missing Persons exhumed seven bodies from
one mass grave and several body parts from a second grave near a local
graveyard in the village of Vrbanjci, some 110 kilometers (70 miles)
northwest of Sarajevo.
Personal belongings and documents found in the graves indicated that
the bodies were of some of 59 Muslims rounded up and massacred in
June 1992 by Bosnian Serbs who overran the area.
The forensic experts discovered the graves as they were searching
for the ...