(2 Sep 2004)
1. Wide shot mass grave site
2. Remains of corpses and bones scattered inside the pit
3. Human skull
4. Human bones
5. Human skull
6. Families of the victims gathering around the mass grave
7. Woman touching the piece of the clothes found inside grave
8. Various of families
9. Woman crying
10. Human remains
11. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Kada Hotic, mother of victim:
"We came here looking for our sons, these are all bodies of our sons. This is unbelievable what they have done to them. I don't understand why they did it."
12. Various of forensic expert holding an ID card found in the grave
13. Various of remains inside the pit and families searching
14. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Murat Hurtic, Bosnian forensic expert:
"This is a very big mass grave site. We believe it contains up to 200 bodies of victims from Srebrenica. We also believe this is a secondary grave (meaning not the original grave) and that these remains have been brought here from a place called Glogova (next to Srebrenica)."
15. Wide shot mass grave
STORYLINE:
Forensic experts have uncovered a mass grave in north-east Bosnia believed to hold the bodies of up to 200 Bosnian Muslims killed during the Serb attack on Srebrenica in July 1995.
Relatives of the victims gathered at the site in village of Bljeceva, near Srebrenica, on Thursday, trying to identify the remains of their loved ones.
The grave, the size of a small football field, is filled with the bodies of dozens of young men believed to have been executed after Serb troops overran the predominantly Muslim area.
According to Bosnian forensic experts many were shot in the back of the head, then dumped into the pit.
Murat Hurtic said the grave could hold up to 200 bodies, but with parts scattered around the field, it would be difficult to be precise.
Bosnian officials have found a number ID cards which will help identify at least some bodies found at the site.
About 7,500 Muslim men and boys were slain over nine days in July 1995, when Serb forces broke through UN defence posts around the area. It was the
worst slaughter of civilians in Europe since World War II.
A few months ago, officials found a grave containing some 100 bodies just few hundred metres away.
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