REMAINS OF 15 VICTIMS OF SERB AGGRESSION EXHUMED FROM MASS GRAVE NEAR DALJ

DALJ, May 3 (Hina) - The remains of 15 victims of the Serb aggression in Croatia have been exhumed from a mass grave near the eastern Croatian village of Dalj, and it is assumed that the grave includes several dozens of victims, head of the Croatian government office for missing and detained persons Ivan Grujic said Thursday. "We are certain that the victims were brought from the Borovokomerc warehouse and killed on this location immediately after the occupation of Vukovar. The victims exhumed so far are civilians", Grujic said. Also present at the exhumation was the investigator of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia who is conducting a parallel investigation. The exhumation started on April 25. Grujic said his office was still searching for another 1,496 missing persons. ICTY investigator Vladimir Dzuro did not want to discuss the investigation in detail and said he would do so after the identification of victims. Croatian war veterans' Minister Ivica Pancic, who was also present at the exhumation site, expressed satisfaction with the accelerated process of exhumation and the work of the government's office for missing and detained person. "I believe that the identification process would also be accelerated", Pancic said, stressing it was government's priority to find missing soldiers and civilians. "We do not expect the International Court (ICTY) to solve problems we should have solved", Pancic said and expressed belief Croatian competent bodies would do the job. (hina) it