Investigators found 14 remains in the mass grave at the landfill in Kozluk, and during the coming days it will be worked on cleaning and excavation of this locality, while the exhumation of the bodies should start on Monday; said the spokesperson of the Institute for Missing Persons of B&H Lejla Čengić.
“This is a primary mass grave which has been disturber and the remains have been displaced. This mass grave hides a larger number of persons killed during the genocide,” Čengić said and added that the machines have reached two meters in depth.
Investigators from the ICTY have also joined the investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H, who have been searching the landfill for several days now, since this exhumation is important for the cases being processed in the Hague Tribunal. Namely, the Hague Tribunal exhumed 40 victims from this area so far.
“According to the evidence collected, around 1,000 victims of Bosniak nationality, men and boys from the Srebrenica area, have been executed at the locality of this landfill, and no one survived this execution. Given that the remains of the executed victims have been moved from this locality to other locations, it is still being searched for at least 200 remains of victims,” said the spokesman of the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H Boris Grubešić.
The landfill is located some hundred meters away from the main street and the center of Kozluk, and the mass grave is accessed via a muddy, but not so bad road.
Members of the Border Police of B&H have been at the scene, performing regular field visit, and the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H stated that they have recently arrested a suspect for the criminal offense of genocide, who is being brought into connection with the killing of victims at this locality.
“Several other micro-locations at this are will be searched in the coming period. The exhumation process is to be intensively continued during the following days as well,” Grubešić said.
(Source: klix.ba)
