KNIN KNIN, April 20 (Hina) - Investigators of the ICTY Prosecution, accompanied by officials of the Croatian justice and interior ministries, on Friday started unearthing some areas in the cemetery of Knin (southern Croatia). They
began to excavate the five marked sites, where Serbs, who died during the 1995 liberating operation "Storm" were interred. The Croatian government met a request of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Prosecutor's Office to unearth some graves at the Knin cemetery in order to establish the cause of death of those buried in the Knin graveyards in summer 1995. In the past Croatian human rights asserted that above 300 corpses were buried in the cemetery of Knin which used to be the stronghold of Serb rebels. Hague investigators have assessed that they will find 253 bodies of the Serbs who were killed in a Knin wider area. The head of the Croatian Commission f
KNIN, April 20 (Hina) - Investigators of the ICTY Prosecution,
accompanied by officials of the Croatian justice and interior
ministries, on Friday started unearthing some areas in the cemetery
of Knin (southern Croatia).
They began to excavate the five marked sites, where Serbs, who died
during the 1995 liberating operation "Storm" were interred.
The Croatian government met a request of the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Prosecutor's Office to
unearth some graves at the Knin cemetery in order to establish the
cause of death of those buried in the Knin graveyards in summer
1995.
In the past Croatian human rights asserted that above 300 corpses
were buried in the cemetery of Knin which used to be the stronghold
of Serb rebels. Hague investigators have assessed that they will
find 253 bodies of the Serbs who were killed in a Knin wider area.
The head of the Croatian Commission for Detained and Missing
Persons, Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Grujic, said the exhumation of
remains would start on Tuesday. The corpses will be taken to Zagreb,
where the processing and identification will continue.
Lt. Grujic added that today bulldozers started to remove the first
layer from the marked sites.
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