(16 Nov 2007)
1. Wide of blue covering over mass grave site in Kamenica
2. Mid of forensic experts working on the grave site
3. Various of experts working at site, gathering and logging human remains
4. Various of human remains in the pit being gathered and taken away
5. Various of on-going work at the site
6. Mid of expert putting human remains in a bag
8. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-croat) Emir Ibrahimovic, District Attorney of Tuzla in-charge of the excavation:
"Until today, we have exhumed 60 complete skeletons and 395 incomplete skeletons of the victims."
9. Cutaway of forensic experts
10. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-croat) Emir Ibrahimovic, District Attorney of Tuzla in-charge of the excavation:
"Most of the skeletons had their hands tied behind their back, as well as their heads and eyes blindfolded, which can tell us about the way this execution was conducted."
10. Close up of expert holding an ID card
11. Various of forensic experts at work
12. Wide of bags containing human remains being taken away.
STORYLINE:
Forensic experts working at a mass grave in the Bosnian town of Kamenica have exhumed remains of what appear to be 454 Bosnian Muslims killed by Serb forces in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, officials said on Friday.
This site is the ninth such mass grave discovered in Kamenica near Srebrenica.
The enormity of the site has kept the forensic team working here for the past three weeks.
The remains were heavily damaged, a typical feature of secondary mass graves to which bodies are moved from an original burial site in an attempt to hide a crime.
District Attorney of Tuzla, Emir Ibrahimovic, who is in charge of the excavation said that they had exhumed 60 complete skeletons and 395 incomplete ones of massacred Bosnians.
"Most of the skeletons had their hands tied behind their back, as well as their heads and eyes blindfolded, which can tell us about the way this execution was conducted," said Ibrahimovic.
Much of the earth in this case was removed with bulldozers, which complicates the identification process because parts of the same body are sometimes found in two or even three different mass graves.
Along with the remains, Ibrahimovic said his team found documents indicating the remains belonged to victims of the Srebrenica massacre, which was Europe's worst mass killing since World War II.
Serb troops in 1995 overran the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, which the United Nations had declared a safe zone, and killed as many as 8-thousand Muslim men and boys.
Forensics teams have been uncovering mass graves throughout Bosnia in recent years, collecting the remains and extracting DNA to be matched with family members. Once a match is found, the remains are returned to the family for burial.
Of the 3,500 bodies of Srebrenica victims excavated so far, 2,500 have been identified through DNA and some 2,000 buried in a cemetery in the Srebrenica suburb of Potocari.
That is where the victims were last seen alive before being rounded up by Serb soldiers and taken for execution.
Another 5,000 bags with remains of victims found in nearly 60 mass graves in eastern Bosnia are still waiting to be identified before being returned to their families.
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