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SARAJEVO, July 26 (KUNA) -- A mass grave containing 131 Bosnian Muslims
have been found in Srebrenica by an international missing people agency.
The victims were mostly killed by Bosnian Serb forces at Srebrenica in 1995
in the worst massacre of the conflict.
Chief international expert Murat Hurtic told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on
Thursday that the International Committee on Missing Persons had discovered
the mass grave at Budac near Srebrenica, where Bosnian Serb forces had
transferred their victims as a camouflage for their crimes.
The victims from Srebrenica were executed by Serb forces on July 11, 1995.
Their corpses were transferred to Glogovo and then to Budac in order to hide
their crimes, Hurtic added.
Thus, the number of Srebrenica victims killed by Serb forces has risen up
to some 9,000, including men, women and children, he said, noting the new
victims were apparently killed by shooting.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) had earlier stated that Srebrenica
witnessed a racial and religious genocide in July 1995, he emphasized.
Some 200,000 Bosnians were killed by Serb forces and Croatian militias
during the Bosnia-Herzegovina war between April 1992 and November 1995. (end)
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