EXHUMATION COMPLETED IN BRATUNAC MUNICIPALITY

At the site of Voljavica, in the municipality of Bratunac, the process of exhumation has been completed. Complete mortal remains of two persons have been found. The subsequent process will determine the identity of the victims whose remains have been found.

According to the available information, the mortal remains found at this location presumably belong to the victims of Bosniak ethnicity.

The exhumation and the work of all the persons involved in the exhumation process has been coordinated by an Investigator, who has been acting under the supervision of an assigned Prosecutor from the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and in accordance with an Order issued by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The exhumation has been conducted with the participation of the officers from the BiH Missing Persons Institute, an expert forensic pathologist, the necessary workers of the Tuzla Commemorative Center, as well as police officers of the Bratunac 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.