Victims linked to the Srebrenica genocide of July 1995 were found in a mass grave near the town of Kalinovik (south), announced on Wednesday the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), which assisted the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. to identify the human remains exhumed.
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"
Of all the genocide graves (...) which have been found to date
", the one found near Kalinovik, about 200 kilometers from Srebrenica, is "
by far the most remote
", underlined Matthew Holliday, chief. of the ICMP Western Balkans Program.
The site is located a few kilometers from the village of Godinjska Bara, near Trnovo, where paramilitaries from the “
Scorpions
”
unit
executed six Bosnian prisoners from Srebrenica in mid-July 1995, said Matthew Holliday.
Ten DNA matches
This shooting was filmed and the images were broadcast in the trials of former Serbian leaders before international justice. Genetic profiles obtained from samples taken from human remains found in May in the Kalinovik region were compared with reference samples provided to the ICMP by relatives of the missing, last seen alive in Srebrenica in July 1995.
Ten DNA matches were made for different people.
These concordance reports were submitted to the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina for formal identification.
The authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina will determine the cause and mode of death.
The victims of the Srebrenica massacre, in which some 8,000 Bosnian (Muslim) men and adolescents were killed by Bosnian Serb forces, have been found in more than 90 mass graves, according to Almasa Salihovic, spokesperson for the Srebrenica Memorial Center. .
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“
It's more and more difficult to find mass graves.
We are still looking for more than a thousand people
”from this massacre, she told AFP in June.
The last mass grave linked to the Srebrenica genocide was unearthed in 2016, said Matthew Holliday.
The former political and military leaders of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, have been sentenced by international justice to life imprisonment, in particular for this crime.