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(Image source: BBC)
BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN
Several hundred bodies have been found in a newly uncovered mass grave in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Investigators think the remains belong to victims of the conflict following the breakup
of the former Yugoslavia in the '90s. (Via CNN / NTV Hayat)
In the early '90s, Serb soldiers went house to house in an ethnic cleansing campaign in
Bosnia. (Photograph provided courtesy of the ICTY)
"My mom was killed. She was killed by her neighbors, people we socialized with, people
who used to have coffee with us." (Via Al Jazeera)
Investigators think the site, which is more than 10 meters deep and covers about 5,000
square meters, might hold around 700 bodies. (Via KSDK)
They say it might be the biggest mass grave in Bosnia.
Excavators have been working on the mass grave since September, but the sheer number of bodies
they're finding is only recently coming to light. So far, they say they've exhumed well
over 300 bodies, and that number goes up every day. They're taking the remains to be identified.
(Via WGNO, WCSC)
The find could be linked to another grave found in 2003 about 6 miles away from this
one. Shockingly, investigators say they might have found parts of the same victims' bodies
in both graves. (Via NHK)
Some 9,000 people are still missing 20 years after the conflict, according to the International
Commission on Missing Persons. Meanwhile, war crimes from the conflicts in the Balkans
continue to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.