The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and HerzegovinaNews
EXHUMATION COMPLETED IN BRATUNAC MUNICIPALITY
07.12.2016. 15:53
The exhumation process was supervised and coordinated by an Investigator of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Incomplete mortal remains were found and identities of the victims whose mortal remains were found will be determined in a subsequent process. The mortal remains will be transported to the Commemorative Center in Tuzla for further forensic processing and identification.
The exhumation process was conducted with the participation of officers of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, an expert forensic pathologist and police officers of the Police Station in Bratunac.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with institutions involved in the process of tracing and identifying missing persons, continues with its intensive activities aimed at finding missing persons 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).
