The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
AN EXHUMATION IN DOBOJ MUNICIPALITY TEMPORARILY HALTED
25.05.2012. 15:12The DNA analysis of these bodies shall be by handled by the laboratory of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
The exhumation process was supervised by an investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH and attended by representatives of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), BiH Institute for Missing Persons, a doctor working in the field of forensic medicine, employees and the machinery of the funeral company „Mimoza“ as well as police officers of the RS MoI.
The exhumation had to be temporarily halted because the officials handling the exhumation discovered explosive devices at the exhumation site.
Once the site is cleared and the explosive devices removed the exhumation process shall continue.
The Prosecutor's Office of BiH, along with other law enforcement agencies and institutions involved in the process of tracing the missing persons in BiH, continues its activities in the process of tracing and exhuming the remains of war crimes victims in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This announcement does not prejudice the outcome of the criminal proceedings and does not violate the principle of the presumption of innocence. A person shall be considered innocent of a crime until guilt has been established by a final verdict (Article 3, paragraph 1 of the CPC BiH).
