EXHUMATION OF MASS GRAVE BEGINS

HRVATSKA DUBICA, Sept 10 (Hina) - Teams of the government's Office for Detained and Missing Persons on Tuesday began excavations at three locations in Bacin looking for the remains of victims of the Serbian aggression on Croatia in the early 1990s. #L# The exhumation teams are looking for a mass grave containing the bodies of 27 civilians from Bacin killed by Serb rebels in the autumn of 1991, the head of the government office, Lt. Ivan Grujic, said. This week exhumations will also be carried out on another three locations in the Hrvatska Kostajnica area and on two in the Dvor region, said Grujic. To date, 601 victims of the Serbian aggression have been exhumed from 40 mass and many single graves in Sisak-Moslavina County. Of these, 482 victims and 80 percent of the exhumed remains have been identified. According to Grujic, 301 persons gone missing during the Homeland War are still being traced in said county and the Banovina region. In total, Croatia is looking for 1,348 missing persons. The remains of 3,353 persons have been exhumed to date from 135 mass and a series of single graves throughout the country. Of these, 2,245 have been identified. (hina) ha