EXHUMATION COMPLETED IN VLASENICA MUNICIPALITY; MORTAL REMAINS OF ONE PERSON FOUND

At the location of Durakovići, in the area of Vlasenica Municipality, the exhumation process was completed and a bone was found, which presumably belongs to a victim from the past war.  

The mortal remains were transported to the premises of the Public Utilities Enterprise ‘Commemorative Centre’ in Tuzla, where identification by the DNA analysis will be performed and the identity of the victim whose mortal remains were found will be determined.

An Investigator of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina was present in the field, directly overseeing and coordinating the exhumation process under the supervision of the Prosecutor in charge of the respective case.   

The exhumation was carried out with the participation of the officers of the BiH Institute for Missing Persons, an expert forensic pathologist and police officers of the Police Station in Vlasenica.  

Employees of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina participate, almost on a daily basis, in the search for, and exhumation of, mortal remains of the victims of war crimes committed throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.