Bone remains of three people killed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war were found in the city of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the neighboring municipality of Bratunac.
According to the statement issued by the Institute of Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, bone remains of three people were found during the studies conducted in 3 different regions in Srebrenica and Bratunac.
In the statement, he was informed that the found bone remains are believed to belong to Bosnian civilians who disappeared in Srebrenica in 1995, that the remains were transferred to the city of Tuzla for judicial procedures, and that samples will be taken to identify the victim. or victims by DNA analysis.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina followed up the excavations at the request of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Genocide in Srebrenica
Srebrenica, declared a “safe area” by the United Nations during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was occupied on July 11, 1995 by the Serbian forces of Ratko Mladic.
As for the Bosnian civilians who took refuge with the Dutch soldiers inside the United Nations after the occupation, they were handed over to the Serbs.
8,372 Bosniaks who were put on buses and trucks were brutally murdered in the forest areas, factories and warehouses where they were transported. The bodies of the dead were buried in various mass graves across the country.
The bodies of some of those killed in the genocide have never been found.
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