By order of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, re-exhumations of previously buried victims of the genocide committed in 1995 in Srebrenica have begun in the cemetery of the Srebrenica Memorial Center – Potočari.
The spokeswoman of the Institute for Missing Persons of BiH, Emza Fazlić, told Fena news agency that in the coming days, until July 19, when the exhumations will last, 71 graves will be opened again, in order to add the remains of the previously buried victims that were identified after their burial.
In many cases, the reassociation of the skeletal remains will be attended by the families of the victims, upon whose approval and with whose consent the exhumation is carried out, and the entire procedure will last seven days.
Eleven re-exhumations have already been carried out, and 12 more graves will be opened today.
“During the reexhumation, the remains of the brothers, father and son will be exhumed together and removed from the graves. Among others, Karić Džemal and his son Edin, Abdurahmanović brothers Izet and Mirzet, Pehratović brothers Lutvo and Muharem will be reexhumed,” said Fazlić.
When it comes to the reexhumations that are being carried out this year, they are mostly about the remains of victims that were exhumed from mass graves in Kamenica, and which were identified after an audit was carried out in morgues in BiH.
In the Srebrenica – Potočari Memorial Center, 985 exhumations have been carried out so far, and with these 71, that number will exceed one thousand.
“Thus, thousands of those killed year after year, after the committed genocide, we added their bones and opened old wounds. On eight occasions, individual exhumations were also carried out, while this is the 14th collective reexhumation in Potočari,” said Fazlić.
