VICTIM’S MORTAL REMAINS FROM PAST WAR EXHUMED IN ROGATICA MUNICIPALITY

The examination was carried out in the area of the Rogatica municipality, at a site in the area of the settlement of Rudo. The complete remains of one person were found and the identity of the victim whose remains were found is to be established in the subsequent process.

A prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH led the exhumation process in the field and representatives of the Institute for Missing Persons of BiH, ICMP in BiH, forensic doctor, police officers of SIPA and PS Rogatica, as well as necessary workers, took part in it and adequate mechanization was used in it.

Working within the investigation in a war crimes case and after interviewing a large number of witnesses, a search of the terrain was started in order to locate the mortal remains that were known to be at the above-mentioned site.

Considering that several firearm bullets were found at the mentioned locality, the search of the terrain will be performed by using detectors in the process of collecting items as evidence for the purposes of the criminal proceedings.

Because of the existence of information that the mortal remains of at least 19 more victims might be at the said site, activities will be actively carried out in the coming period in order to locate potential locations of individual and mass graves and to search for mortal remains in this area.

The mortal remains found were transferred to Goražde, where they will be forensically processed performed, that is, where the cause of death will be established and bone samples taken in order to determine the identity of the victim through DNA analysis.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, together with the institutions involved in the process of searching for missing persons in BiH, continues its activities in the process of exhumations and searching for missing persons in all parts of BiH.