REMAINS OF 15 BODIES FOUND NEAR WARTIME MUJAHEDIN CAMP IN BOSNIA
BBC Monitoring International Reports - May 18, 2005

Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Bugojno, 18 May: An expert team of the Canton Prosecutor's Office in Travnik and the Federation Commission for Missing Persons has ended the exhuming of the bodily remains of [1992-95] war victims from the Zlatarica site near Bugojno [in central Bosnia]. The bodily remains of a total of 15 persons have been found so far over the course of this and last year. Among the victims are the bodily remains of two children.

On Monday, 16 May, the remains of six victims of war were exhumed - among them were three totally preserved skeletons and three sets of bodily remains.

Among the exhumed are the skeletons of two children, who were the age of around four and 13. The skeletal remains of at least four persons were exhumed yesterday, on 17 May.

Federation Commission for Missing Persons head Marko Jurisic said that it was too early to say who the exhumed victims were as no clothes, objects or personal documents had been found which could lead towards their identification.

The Zlatarica site near Bugojno was under the control of the Bosnia-Hercegovina Army during the entire duration of the war and, near the mass graves, there used to be a mujahedin camp.
 

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1606 gmt 18 May 05

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