Forensic experts found the biggest mass grave from the Bosnia war containing the remains of more than 1,000 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, in which about 8,106 Muslim men and boys were murdered by Bosnian Serb troops, the BBC reported.
"We have uncovered 1,153 skeletons, of which 144 were complete while 1,009 were dismembered," a member of the Bosnian forensic team, Murat Hurtic, told AFP news agency.
The remains were uncovered from the grave located in Kamenica, a village in eastern Bosnia near the border with Serbia.
“Kamenica is the biggest mass grave" found since Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, said Hurtic, adding that it contained twice as many victims as the nearby Crni Vrh burial site.
"We found many gunshot wounds, many broken bones and skulls, of whom some could have been broken by machines when the bodies were moved from primary mass graves," he added.
Hurtic also said that they found “the clothing of at least two women, and numerous (remains of) elderly men and several bodies (of victims) aged around 15.”
The Kamenica mass grave also contained documents indicating that the victims died in the Srebrenica massacre, the Associated Press news agency reported.
In July 1995, Serb forces overran the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica, where tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim civilians had taken refuge from earlier Serb atrocities.
The Serb forces later separated thousands of men and boys from their families and killed them, dumping the bodies in mass graves.
More mass graves
The Kamenica mass grave is one of eight burial sites found in Kamenica, where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies of the Srebrenica victims to cover up the crime.
AlJazeera
The seven previously exhumed mass graves contained at least 1,000 bodies from the Srebrenica massacre.
Hurtic described the latest mass grave as a pit filled with Srebrenica massacre victims' bodies.
"For 10 years, this mass grave was not covered. The grass grew over the bones because the perpetrators filled the pit with bodies so much that they could not cover it with earth," he said.
Hurtic also said he believed the area around Kamenica village still contains more mass graves.
"Excavations in Kamenica are not over. We will have to return there in a year or two as we have knowledge that in Kamenica there are more mass graves."
The Srebrenica massacre, considered the worst mass killing in Europe since World War Two, had led to genocide charges brought by The Hague War Crime Tribunal against several suspects including wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic.
More than 11 years since the massacre, the two men still remain at large.
"We have uncovered 1,153 skeletons, of which 144 were complete while 1,009 were dismembered," a member of the Bosnian forensic team, Murat Hurtic, told AFP news agency.
The remains were uncovered from the grave located in Kamenica, a village in eastern Bosnia near the border with Serbia.
“Kamenica is the biggest mass grave" found since Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, said Hurtic, adding that it contained twice as many victims as the nearby Crni Vrh burial site.
"We found many gunshot wounds, many broken bones and skulls, of whom some could have been broken by machines when the bodies were moved from primary mass graves," he added.
Hurtic also said that they found “the clothing of at least two women, and numerous (remains of) elderly men and several bodies (of victims) aged around 15.”
The Kamenica mass grave also contained documents indicating that the victims died in the Srebrenica massacre, the Associated Press news agency reported.
In July 1995, Serb forces overran the UN-protected enclave of Srebrenica, where tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim civilians had taken refuge from earlier Serb atrocities.
The Serb forces later separated thousands of men and boys from their families and killed them, dumping the bodies in mass graves.
More mass graves
The Kamenica mass grave is one of eight burial sites found in Kamenica, where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies of the Srebrenica victims to cover up the crime.
AlJazeera
The seven previously exhumed mass graves contained at least 1,000 bodies from the Srebrenica massacre.
Hurtic described the latest mass grave as a pit filled with Srebrenica massacre victims' bodies.
"For 10 years, this mass grave was not covered. The grass grew over the bones because the perpetrators filled the pit with bodies so much that they could not cover it with earth," he said.
Hurtic also said he believed the area around Kamenica village still contains more mass graves.
"Excavations in Kamenica are not over. We will have to return there in a year or two as we have knowledge that in Kamenica there are more mass graves."
The Srebrenica massacre, considered the worst mass killing in Europe since World War Two, had led to genocide charges brought by The Hague War Crime Tribunal against several suspects including wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic.
More than 11 years since the massacre, the two men still remain at large.
