KNIN CEMETERY KNIN, April 24 (Hina) - The exhumation of Serbs, killed during the 1995 liberating operation "Storm" and interred in the town cemetery of Knin (southern Croatia), started on Tuesday. Reporters were not allowed to come
closer to the graveyard, but they saw the beginning of the unearthing, looking from the roof terrace of a nearby house. Reporters expect that an investigating judge will inform them about the exhumation later in the day. A wreath which Croatian war veterans, who yesterday protested against the exhumation conducted by the ICTY Tribunal, did not manage to lay at the cemetery as policemen prevented them, was placed at the cemetery on Tuesday morning. On Monday afternoon the wreath was put beside a police car on the road towards the graveyard. This morning the police called veterans to lay it at the cemetery. On behalf of HVIDR-a, an association of disabled war veterans, and the national Headquarters for the Pro
KNIN, April 24 (Hina) - The exhumation of Serbs, killed during the
1995 liberating operation "Storm" and interred in the town cemetery
of Knin (southern Croatia), started on Tuesday.
Reporters were not allowed to come closer to the graveyard, but they
saw the beginning of the unearthing, looking from the roof terrace
of a nearby house.
Reporters expect that an investigating judge will inform them about
the exhumation later in the day.
A wreath which Croatian war veterans, who yesterday protested
against the exhumation conducted by the ICTY Tribunal, did not
manage to lay at the cemetery as policemen prevented them, was
placed at the cemetery on Tuesday morning.
On Monday afternoon the wreath was put beside a police car on the
road towards the graveyard. This morning the police called veterans
to lay it at the cemetery. On behalf of HVIDR-a, an association of
disabled war veterans, and the national Headquarters for the
Protection of the Dignity of the Homeland Defence War, Ivan Baric
and Marko Djapic carried the wreath into the cemetery.
The Croatian government met a request of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Prosecutor's Office to
unearth some graves at the Knin cemetery in order to establish the
cause of death of those buried in the Knin graveyards in summer
1995. Croatian human rights groups had asserted that above 300
corpses were buried in the cemetery of Knin, this southern town
which used to be the stronghold of Serb rebels. Hague investigators
have assessed that they will find 253 bodies of the Serbs killed in a
Knin wider area when Croatian forces liberated the region.
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