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Bodies of 30 Muslims Exhumed From 3 Mass Graves in Bosnia

Most victims found were women, says Delahmet

SARAJEVO, October 24 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The bodies of 30 Bosnian Muslim civilians killed during the country's 1992-95 war have been exhumed from three mass graves found near the southeastern border with Montenegro, a local official said Thursday October 24.

"The bodies were dug out of three mass graves all found in the Cajnice region," Sefik Delahmet, a member of the Muslim missing persons' commission, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"Most victims found in the first discovered grave were women," he said, adding that bullets and cartridges were also found with the remains.

The dead probably came from the regions of Cajnice, Gorazde and nearby Foca, he said.

They were believed to have been part of a group of civilians killed by Bosnian Serbs as they attempted to flee to Montenegro soon after the outbreak of war.

Nineteen victims, believed members of the same group, had been exhumed in September from another mass grave found in the Cajnice region.

Several hundred Bosnian Muslims were killed when Bosnian Serb troops seized control of the Foca area in 1992.

Foca is today part of the Serb-run Republika Srpska, which along with the Muslim-Croat Federation makes up post-war Bosnia.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), more than 17,000 Bosnians are still unaccounted for, seven years after the end of the war that pitted Bosnian Serbs against Muslims and Croats, killing over 200,000 people.

 

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