EXHUMATION COMPLETED IN ZVORNIK MUNICIPALITY

At the Repišta site, in Križevići in the Zvornik municipality, the process of exhumation/clearing up of the terrain has been completed and incomplete mortal remains of at least one person have been found. The subsequent process will determine the identity of the victims whose remains have been found.

The exhumation process has been supervised and coordinated by an Investigator from the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The mortal remains have been transferred to the Tuzla Commemorative Center, where further forensic and crime investigation processing will be performed and bone samples will be taken for the DNA analysis aimed at determining the victims’ identity.

The exhumation has been conducted with the participation of the officers from the BiH Missing Persons Institute, an expert forensic pathologist and police officers from the Zvornik Police Station.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with the institutions involved in the process of tracing and identification of missing persons, continues with its intensive activities aimed at finding missing persons in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.