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