DID YOU KNOW?  -- Three years before the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Serbs torched Bosniak villages and killed at least 3,166 Bosniaks around Srebrenica. In 1993, the UN described the besieged situation in Srebrenica as a "slow-motion process of genocide." In July 1995, Serbs forcibly expelled 25,000 Bosniaks, brutally raped many women and girls, and systematically killed 8,000+ men and boys (DNA confirmed).

06 July, 2006

PREPARATIONS FOR SREBRENICA MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY UNDERWAY, NEW MASS GRAVE FOUND

A Bosnian Muslim woman prays above a marble stone engraved with 8,370 names of Srebrenica massacre victims at the Memorial Center Potocari, near Srebrenica, July 6, 2006. About 500 identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on its 11th anniversary on July 11, 2006. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
A Bosnian Muslim woman prays above a marble stone engraved with 8,370 names of Srebrenica massacre victims at the Memorial Center Potocari, near Srebrenica, July 6, 2006. About 500 identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre will be buried on its 11th anniversary on July 11, 2006.

MORE VICTIMS FOUND AS 11th ANNIVERSARY OF SREBRENICA MASSACRE LOOMS


By Miran Jelenek

Bosnian Muslim woman Zejnila Cikaric from nearby village gesture as she looks at the body remains in a hope to find her missing familly members during exhumation at the mass grave site in the village of Kamenica, in the outskirts of the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, 120 kms north of Sarajevo on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. The mass grave in Kamenica is considered to be a secondary mass-grave, where bodies initially buried elsewhere were dumped, and containing bodies of close to 300 Srebrenica massacre civilians. 11th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre will be held next Tuesday, July 11. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)KAMENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Forensic experts said on Thursday they had unearthed the remains of 268 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre - the first legally established case of genocide in Europe after the Holocaust - days before its 11th anniversary.

Over 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) were slaughtered in the Srebrenica massacre.

A forensic expert inspects remains during an exhumation at a mass grave site in the village of Kamenica, at the outskirts of the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, July 6, 2006. Forensic experts have so far unearthed the remains of 33 complete and 235 incomplete bodies of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by the Bosnian Serb forces. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) About 500 newly-identified victims of the Srebrenica masssacre, widely seen as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two, will be buried on July 11 at a cemetery near the eastern town, where 2,000 victims have already been buried.

New victims are being unearthed at the Jaz mass grave, to where bodies were transferred from the site of the massacre to try to hide traces of the crime, the experts say. The youngest victim was a 10-year old girl.

British forensic expert Sharna Daley unearths remains during an exhumation of eight mass graves found in the village of Kamenica, at the outskirts of the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, July 6, 2006. Forensic experts have so far unearthed the remains of 33 complete and 235 incomplete bodies of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by the Bosnian Serb forces. REUTERS/ Danilo Krstanovic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) Jaz is the eighth and possibly biggest mass grave found in the village of Kamenica, near the eastern town of Zvornik. The digging, which began in the second week of June, will continue and more bodies are expected to be found.

A multi-national forensic team, unearthing an 18-meter by 4-meter (60 ft by 13 ft) grave, worked in tropical heat under a huge air-conditioned tent surrounded by piles of human skulls and bones.

Forensic experts Sharna Daley of London, front left, examines two bones to find out whether they belong to the same person during exhumation at the mass grave site in the village of Kamenica, in the outskirts of the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, 120 kms north of Sarajevo on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. The mass grave in Kamenica is considered to be a secondary mass-grave, where bodies initially buried elsewhere were dumped, and containing around 300 bodies of Srebrenica massacre civilians. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)"The bodies are mostly articulated, skeletonised, with a good degree of preservation," Canadian forensic anthropologist Renee Kosalka told Reuters. She said the victims' ages ranged from 16 to 60 and they were mostly male.

After the former U.N. "safe zone" of Srebrenica fell to the Bosnian Serbs in July 1995, their troops killed and buried over eight thousand civilians fleeing the enclave.

man searches through more than 600 coffins with remains of victims of Srebrenica massacre waiting for the funeral in a factory hall in Potocari on July 11, 2005. REUTERS/Danilo Krstanovic Documents and some objects found on the bodies proved the victims were Bosniaks from Srebrenica, the experts said, adding they had also found empty bullet shells and ropes in the grave.

Murat Hurtic of the regional commission for missing persons said about half of Srebrenica victims had been found in 80 mass graves in eastern Bosnia, but only a third had been identified so far.

A Bosnian worker digs a grave during preparations for burial of 500 identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre at the Memorial Center Potocari, near Srebrenica, 120 km (75 miles) north of Sarajevo on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. The burial ceremony for 500 recently identified victims of the Srebrenica massacre exhumed from numerous mass graves is to be held on Tuesday, July 11. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) The remains are identified through DNA analysis, matching bones of victims with blood samples from their relatives.

The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) said this week they had identified 10,000 victims from the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1990s. Almost all of the identified victims on a territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina were Bosniaks.

posted by Srebrenica Genocide at 12:46 PM