TRIBUNAL'S FORENSIC EXPERTS CONTINUE TO EXHUME MASS GRAVES

( Editorial: --> 3270 ) SARAJEVO, May 12 (Hina) - A special team of forensic experts began exhuming new mass grave which are suspected of holding Moslem victims from Srebrenica, killed after Serb troops occupied the town in 1995. The forensic experts, working under orders from the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), began the exhumation process on a location called Cancari, south-west of Zvornik in eastern Bosnia, UN spokesman in Sarajevo, Aleksandar Ivanko, confirmed on Tuesday. He stressed that this case, as opposed to every previous case, was a 'secondary location', meaning that the bodies of killed victims had previously been buried in some other mass grave, and then moved to this location. The bodies were subsequently moved to the grave site in Cancari, meaning that the perpetrators had obviously attempted to cover up the evidence of their crimes, Ivanko said. The forensic team completed an exhumation of a mass grave in Brnica, also near Zvornik, where the remains of a large number of killed persons were recovered. The identification process of the remains is under way. During the exhumation of this grave, it was confirmed that the grave had been dug out previously, and that Serbs had in this way tried to remove the remains of killed persons, the team's spokeswoman, Kelly Moore, said. After Serbs occupied Srebrenica in July 1995, almost eight thousand Bosniaks-Moslems disappeared. It is presumed that Serb forces killed them and buried them in mass graves near the former UN Protection Areas (UNPA zones). (hina) lm 121419 MET may 98