SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Forensic experts have exhumed 249 bodies from a mass grave in northeastern Bosnia containing victims of the country's devastating 1992-95 war, an official said Thursday.
Murat Hurtic, an official with the missing persons commission in the Muslim-Croat part of the country, said exhumations have been completed at the site in the village of Bljeceva, about 90 kilometres northeast of Sarajevo.
Based on the documents and other evidence found on the bodies, most of the dead appeared to be Bosnian Muslims killed in the 1995 massacre in nearby Srebrenica, the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since the Second World War, he said.
The remains will undergo DNA analysis in an attempt to identify them. The site is a so-called secondary grave, where bodies initially buried elsewhere were dumped in an effort to hide them, Hurtic said.
Over the years, UN and local forensic experts in Bosnia have exhumed 16,500 bodies from more than 300 mass graves. Thousands of people remain missing following the war.
About 250,000 people were killed and 2.2 million driven from their homes during the ethnic conflict, which pitted Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs against each other.
Let see if you can follow this, from your own posting:
...most of the dead appeared to be Bosnian Muslims...What that translates to is that some of the dead are NOT Bosnian Muslims. Of course, you already knew that...