Bosnia - Mass Graves Found In Cemetery

(30 Mar 1996) T/I: 10:59:43


Officials from the Hague's international war crimes tribunal, the Red Cross and the peace Implementation Force (IFOR) began investigating allegations by the Bosnian Serbs on Saturday (30/3) of a mass grave at a cemetery on the outskirts of Mrkonjic Grad. Most of the site was an ordinary cemetery, with the dead buried according to the standards set by the War Graves Commission, but workers digging on the edge of the graveyard found 14 bodies that were not buried normally.

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MRKONJIC GRAD, BOSNIA 30/3
WS Mrkonjic Grad; cemetery in foreground
MS cemetery; crowd gathered there
WS line of graves
WS Men working with equipment
MS Policeman
Vs men working over graves with metal detector
Vs working in soil
WS troop of grave diggers walks across
GVs area
WS diggers at work
MS graves dug
Vs digging graves
SOT: by Bosnina Serb army prosecutor Major Jovicinac in Serbian, saying there were 200 civilians and members of the Bosnian Serb army buried here.
SOT: Luka Calic, SDS leader in Serbian saying he's been told by Muslims who were working burying the bodies, that a number of the people had been shot (executed) by the regular Croatian Army.
WS Mrkonjic Grad;

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