GRACAC GRACAC, June 4 (Hina) - A Croatian government team of experts has so far exhumed the remains of 93 persons at the Orthodox cemetery in the central town of Gracac, at the request and under the supervision of ICTY investigators,
the head of the government's team, Ivan Grujic, said on Tuesday.
GRACAC, June 4 (Hina) - A Croatian government team of experts has so
far exhumed the remains of 93 persons at the Orthodox cemetery in
the central town of Gracac, at the request and under the supervision
of ICTY investigators, the head of the government's team, Ivan
Grujic, said on Tuesday. #L#
The exhumed bodies belonged to persons killed during the Croatian
police and military operation "Storm" in the wider Lika area, who
were buried at the Gracac cemetery, Grujic said, adding the persons
were buried in line with the Geneva Convention.
"According to our findings, the bodies were not buried in a mass
grave but in separate graves," Grujic said.
The remains were buried along with military uniforms, documents,
weapons and jewelery, which leads us to the conclusion that they
were buried in an appropriate manner, Grujic said.
He reiterated that so far there had been no unknown facts for the
Croatian government about the burial at the Gracac cemetery.
"Croatia published an integral report on the remains in 1995 and the
report notes that the remains of 158 persons were buried there,"
Grujic said.
Zadar County Prosecutor Ivan Galovic and investigating judge Marin
Grbic, members of the government's team of experts, said that
nothing dramatic was taking place at the Orthodox cemetery in
Gracac. "Nothing we have found so far indicates that a mass war
crime was committed here," Galovic said.
Grujic announced the unearthing of a grave in the Gospic area
containing the remains of Croat victims of the Serb aggression,
killed in 1991.
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