EXHUMATION COMPLETED IN BRATUNAC MUNICIPALITY

At the site of Sikirići, in the municipality of Bratunac, the process of exhumation has been completed. Incomplete mortal remains of one male person have been found. The subsequent process will determine the identity of the victim whose remains have been found.

The exhumation and the work of all the persons involved in the exhumation process has been coordinated by a Legal Officer, 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 remains have been transferred to the Tuzla Commemorative Center for further forensic processing and identification of the victim whose remains have been found.

The exhumation has been conducted with the participation of the officers from the BiH Missing Persons Institute, an expert forensic pathologist, employees of the Public Utility Company “Commemorative Center” in Tuzla, 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.