Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons said on Wednesday that the incomplete remains, believed to belong to at least two more victims of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, were found in the eastern area of Bratunac.
The remains will now be sent to the Commemoration Centre in Tuzla where a DNA analysis will be conducted.
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The exhumation at this location was ordered by Bosnia’s State Court, while the Prosecutor’ Office oversaw it.
On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian enclave and rounded up the town’s Muslim Bosniaks, separated men from women and little children and systematically executed some 8,000 men and boys.
The bodies of the victims were dumped into numerous mass graves in the area.
Forensic experts excavate them and identify the bones through DNA analysis before returning the remains to the families.
Those rebury them every year on July 11 at the Memorial Centre’s cemetery.
Two international courts, the International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) later ruled that the massacre was an act of genocide.
