The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
AN EXHUMATION OF VICTIMS FROM THE PAST WAR WAS CARRIED OUT IN TREBINJE MUNICIPALITY
04.04.2013. 15:18Incomplete remains of one person were unearthed from this location. The recovered remains shall be transported to the Town Cemetery Sutina in Mostar for post mortem examination, identification and forensic processing.
DNA analysis of these remains shall be handled in the laboratory of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
The exhumation was attended by representatives of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, representatives of Trebinje PSC, a doctor working in the field of forensic medicine and an Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH.
The exhumation is supervised by an investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of BiH, who acts in accordance with the instructions of the Prosecutor while coordinating the work of police, forensic experts and other authorized persons engaged in the process of exhumations.
The Prosecutor's Office of BiH, along with other institutions involved in the process of tracing the missing persons in BiH, continues its activities in the process of tracing and exhuming the missing in all parts of BiH.
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).
