48 BODIES EXHUMED FROM BOSNIAN MASS GRAVES LAST WEEK ( Editorial: --> 1435 )

( Editorial: --> 1435 ) SARAJEVO, Nov 17 (Hina) - Bosniak (Moslem) and Serb investigating teams last week exhumed 48 bodies of people killed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina at two different places within regions unavailable for them so far. A spokesman for the international High Representative's office said in Sarajevo on Monday that areas believed to contain mass graves had been searched, in line with a 1 November agreement between the Bosnian Serb and Moslem parties. Jacques Klein, a deputy to High Representative Carlos Westendorp mediated the agreement. Moslem forensic experts searched the area of Kravice, eastern Bosnia. The Kravice area is believed to be a spot where the largest number of Moslem men were killed when they fled Srebrenica in the wake of the Serb occupation of that former UN safe haven. The spokesman Duncan Bullivant said that Sarajevo authorities believe that at least 4,000 people were killed after Serbs overran the Srebrenica region. In the woody part of Kravice, remains of 200 people had already been found, and last week a wide area was combed when another 30 bodies were unearthed. Bosnian Serbs decided to search Mount Ozren, central Bosnia, where fierce battles were fought in autumn 1995. During the search, 18 bodies were found and all of them had visible traces of military uniforms, Bullivant said. (hina) jn mš 171352 MET nov 97