EXHUMATIONS OF CROAT VICTIMS OF MUSLIM CRIMES BEGIN

( Editorial: --> 1580 ) BUGOJNO, Aug 3 (Hina) - The exhumation of bodies from individual graves of victims of crimes committed by Muslims against Croats started on Monday in the Bugojno area of central Bosnia. In attendance were representatives of the international community, the State Commission for Exchanging and Finding Missing and Killed Persons, judges from the Travnik Cantonal Court and high-ranking Croat officials in Bugojno. The bodies of three victims have been found and exhumed in Vucipolje, Pisak, Bristovi, Causlije and Sultanovici, even though there are indications there could be more. In Rosulje the remains of a 66-year-old woman were found in the burnt ruins of her house where she was killed and set on fire. Federal Commission for Missing Persons deputy president Ljerka Radic said the Commission was asking the Muslim side in Bugojno for the bodies of about 150 Croat victims of Muslim crimes, not including 21 Bugojno Croats who went missing after being taken to Muslim prison camps. Exhumations will continue on Tuesday at a mass grave in Humac, where international Deputy High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina Jacques Paul Klein will be present. The identification of the bodies exhumed today will be done by forensic teams from Split Hospital and the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders, led by pathologists Marija Desinis Gojanovic and Canadian forensics expert Mark Skinner, at the Rama Health Centre. (Hina) mbr /rml 032215 MET aug 98