WORKS ON EXHUMATION AT DOBRO POLJE SITE, MUNICIPALITY OF KALINOVIK CONTINUES; MORTAL REMAINS OF AT LEAST FIVE PERSONS FOUND

The intensive field work within the exhumation process at the Dobro Polje site, Kalinovik municipality, aimed at finding and completing the remains of persons missing in the past war has been continued.

The remains of at least five people have so far been found at the exhumation site, which are being removed and which will be forwarded to the Visoko City Graveyard pathology department for further forensic processing and identification of the victims through DNA analysis.

The exhumation is done manually due to the extremely inaccessible and complex terrain.

An investigator of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH is in the field all the time and coordinates the work of all persons involved in the exhumation process.

Involved in the search and exhumation of remains are officers of the Institute for Missing Persons of BiH, representatives of the International Commission for Missing Persons ICMP, forensic experts, necessary workers and mechanisation, as well as police officers of the Foča Police Department and the Kalinovik Police Department who are securing the site and carrying out the criminal-technical processing of evidence and the site.

Representatives of the International Commission for Missing Persons ICMP and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden to BiH also visited the site where the process of exhuming remains is being carried out.

The discovery of this site is the result of the joint work of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) to find information and data on possible locations of the remains of victims of the past war.

The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and other institutions involved in the exhumation process are undertaking activities to secure the said site, as well as to organise the process of exhuming the victims, their further forensic processing and identification.

The exhumation at this site will continue in the coming period.