Bosnia Exhumes Six War Victims from Mass Grave

The Bosnian prosecutor’s office said on Friday that the exhumation of the grave at Hrtar Grad near Visegrad in the east of the country was now complete and that the remains of six people have been found.

“Preliminary information says these are the remains of Bosniak victims from Visegrad, but we will have precise and full details about their identity only after DNA analysis and identity confirmation,” it said.

Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons said that only the incomplete remains of the victims had been found.

It said they were probably killed in 1992 and were moved to the Hrtar Grad site from a ‘primary’ mass grave, where they were first buried.

Remains of victims were often moved during wartime in an attempt to conceal the killings.