BUGOJNO, Apr 8 (Hina) - The remains of 21 Bosnian Croats, killed by Muslims during the Muslim-Croat conflict in Bosnia in 1993 and afterwards, were exhumed on Thursday from single graves in Gorusa, Kandija, Bristovi, and Bilje,
villages in the Bugojno area, central Bosnia. The exhumations were organised by the Office of the High Representative for Bosnia. Among the exhumed are members of the Croatian Council of Defence, civilian women and the elderly, of whom the oldest is Ivo Zivkov Viskovic, born in 1906. He was killed and then set on fire in his house in Kula on August 2, 1993. According to Jerko Radic, a representative of Bosnia's federal Office for the Exchange and Tracing of Missing Persons, the Croat side is still looking for the remains of some 120 killed Croats in the Bugojno area. This figure does not include 21 Croats taken from Muslim concentration camps in 1993. International forensic experts a
BUGOJNO, Apr 8 (Hina) - The remains of 21 Bosnian Croats, killed by
Muslims during the Muslim-Croat conflict in Bosnia in 1993 and
afterwards, were exhumed on Thursday from single graves in Gorusa,
Kandija, Bristovi, and Bilje, villages in the Bugojno area, central
Bosnia.
The exhumations were organised by the Office of the High
Representative for Bosnia.
Among the exhumed are members of the Croatian Council of Defence,
civilian women and the elderly, of whom the oldest is Ivo Zivkov
Viskovic, born in 1906. He was killed and then set on fire in his
house in Kula on August 2, 1993.
According to Jerko Radic, a representative of Bosnia's federal
Office for the Exchange and Tracing of Missing Persons, the Croat
side is still looking for the remains of some 120 killed Croats in
the Bugojno area. This figure does not include 21 Croats taken from
Muslim concentration camps in 1993.
International forensic experts and teams from Split will identify
the exhumed bodies in Rama on Saturday and Sunday.
The exhumations will continue on Friday.
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