MOSTAR, Aug 12 (Hina) - The head of the Bosnian Croat-MuslimFederation's commission for missing persons has refuted allegationsmade by local Serb officials that some of 59 bodies exhumed from amass grave in Sijekovac near the northern
Bosnian city of BosanskiBrod belonged to Serbs from Vukovar, who were killed at the start ofthe war in Croatia in 1991.
MOSTAR, Aug 12 (Hina) - The head of the Bosnian Croat-Muslim
Federation's commission for missing persons has refuted allegations made by
local Serb officials that some of 59 bodies exhumed from a mass grave in
Sijekovac near the northern Bosnian city of Bosanski Brod belonged to Serbs
from Vukovar, who were killed at the start of the war in Croatia in 1991."Such information is only an attempt to push an investigation into the
wrong direction, as there are not any indications or evidence that the
Sijekovac grave might contain bodies of Vukovar Serbs," Marko Jurisic told a
Hina correspondent on the phone on Thursday.
Jurisic went on to say that none of the 59 victims had yet been
identified and therefore it could not be said that there had been dead Serbs
from Vukovar in the grave.
The victims from the Sijekovac grave will be identified by DNA methods
and international experts will be engaged in this job.