The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
EXHUMATION PROCESS COMMENCED AT LAKE PERUĆAC
27.09.2013. 15:08Several incomplete human skeletal remains were found. It is presumed that the remains of Bosniak civilians killed in Višegrad area in 1992 are located on this site.
The recovered remains shall be transported to PUC Gradska groblja Visoko /Town cemeteries Visoko/ for forensic processing and identification.
The exhumation process is coordinated by an investigator of the Special Department for War Crimes within the Prosecutor's Office of BiH and attended by representatives of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, forensic pathologist as well as representatives of PS Višegrad.
The Prosecutor's Office of BiH, along with other law enforcement agencies and institutions involved in the process of tracing and identifying the missing, continues its activities on exhumations and in the process of tracing the remains of the war crime victims in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The exhumation process will continue in the coming days.
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).
