SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Forensic experts said Thursday they had exhumed the remains of 70 Bosnian Muslims killed in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 in eastern Bosnia.
The experts said the mass grave at Snagovo, near Zvornik, at the border with Serbia, was a secondary burial site to which the victims were moved in an effort to cover up the atrocities, the Serbian news agency BETA reported Thursday.
Bosnian Serb forces overran the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, some 30 miles south of Zvornik, in July 1995, when about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed.
Since 1995, the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has been seeking Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on genocide and war crimes against humanity charges, including the massacre in Srebrenica and a 3-year siege and shelling of Sarajevo from 1992-95. Mladic has been in hiding since 1995.
About 7,500 remains have been exhumed in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the work began on mass graves in 1996.
