SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - A special team of Finnish experts will on Tuesday begin searching the area in the Kravica village, near Srebrenica, in order to exhume the bodies of Moslems who had been killed during the Serb attack on the
area under UN protection in July 1995, UN spokesman in Sarajevo Aleksandar Ivanko said on Monday. Twenty three experts would be working under orders of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the goal of the operation was to identify the bodies in order to establish how many people found in this area were on the list of missing persons from Srebrenica, which had been issued by the Bosnian government, Ivanko said.
SARAJEVO, June 24 (Hina) - A special team of Finnish experts will
on Tuesday begin searching the area in the Kravica village, near
Srebrenica, in order to exhume the bodies of Moslems who had been
killed during the Serb attack on the area under UN protection in
July 1995, UN spokesman in Sarajevo Aleksandar Ivanko said on
Monday.
Twenty three experts would be working under orders of the UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the goal of the operation
was to identify the bodies in order to establish how many people
found in this area were on the list of missing persons from
Srebrenica, which had been issued by the Bosnian government, Ivanko
said. #L#
After identifying the bodies, a dignified funeral will be
organized.
The whole operation is financed by the Finnish and Dutch
governments.
UN rapporteur for human rights Elizabeth Rehn is expected to
visit Kravica this week, as well as Tuzla, Vitez and Sarajevo.
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