BELGRADE, March 26 (Hina) - Director of the Novi Sad-based Forensics Institute, Milos Tasic, confirmed to Belgrade's agency Beta Monday that the institute performed autopsies between 1991 and 1993 on corpses dragged out of the Danube
River. Fifty five of the total 87 bodies that were found have been buried at the Novi Sad cemetery. According to Tasic, in 1991 28 bodies were found floating in the Danube, in 1992, 40, and in 1993, 19 remains which were never identified, but he is positive that the river brought them down from near Croatia's eastern town of Vukovar. There are video and audio files on every autopsy performed at the forensics institute in Yugoslavia, he said. All the people were shot dead by weapons or were killed with sharp or blunt objects, while some were found beheaded. All the persons on whom the autopsies were performed were civilians, Tasic maintains. The institute issued some documents i
BELGRADE, March 26 (Hina) - Director of the Novi Sad-based
Forensics Institute, Milos Tasic, confirmed to Belgrade's agency
Beta Monday that the institute performed autopsies between 1991 and
1993 on corpses dragged out of the Danube River. Fifty five of the
total 87 bodies that were found have been buried at the Novi Sad
cemetery.
According to Tasic, in 1991 28 bodies were found floating in the
Danube, in 1992, 40, and in 1993, 19 remains which were never
identified, but he is positive that the river brought them down from
near Croatia's eastern town of Vukovar.
There are video and audio files on every autopsy performed at the
forensics institute in Yugoslavia, he said. All the people were
shot dead by weapons or were killed with sharp or blunt objects,
while some were found beheaded. All the persons on whom the
autopsies were performed were civilians, Tasic maintains.
The institute issued some documents in 1997, where there is
information about the bodies found in the Danube between 1991 and
1993, of which, according to this report, there were 42.
Bodies of 129 people were found in the Danube and Sava rivers, 111
men and 18 women.
"Most of the people were between 20 and 40 years of age, although
there are also children of ten years of age, and those older than
60," the documentation says.
Advisor to the director of the town's undertaker "Lisje", Zarko
Stankov, said several dozen people whose graves have been marked as
NN have been buried at the Novi Sad cemetery. In 1991 27 people and
the following year 32 NN people were buried at Lisje.
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