Re-exhumation of buried victims of the genocide, for the purpose of re-association of subsequently found skeletal remains of victims who have been buried is still ongoing in the Potočari Memorial Center.
It is yet another difficult feat for the families of the victims. Criminals worked methodically, trying to excavate bodies that they buried in primary graves, and re-burying them in the secondary and tertiary graves, to cover their crimes and not to allow the survivors to find the remains of their loved ones – said the associations of families of victims of the genocide.
All of this is very distressing to the families of the victims, because even 20 years since they went missing, body parts are being found and added to the remains and some remains will never be completed.
Re-exhumation of buried victims for the purpose of re-association of subsequently found skeletal remains began yesterday at the Potočari Memorial Center.
“It is planned to carry out re-exhumation of 109 victims in order to re-associate later found body parts, or to execute completion of the previously buried skeletal remains,” said spokeswoman of the Missing Persons Institute of BiH Lejla Čengić.
She said that re-exhumation, which will be managed by the State Prosecution, will take a longer period of time.
It will be monitored by representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office, police, forensic expert and representatives of the Missing Persons Institute of BiH.
The identity of recovered remains has been determined on the basis of DNA analysis.
“The Podrinje Identification Center (PIP) in Tuzla holds the remains of the skeleton of 830 victims that will re-exhumed and the later found and identified remains will be re-associated,” said Čengić.
(Source: Fena)
