The remains of some 250 people believed to be Muslims who disappeared during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war have been recovered from a lake in eastern Bosnia, an official said Wednesday.
"So far we have found 250 skeletons, mostly incomplete," Amor Masovic, an official of Bosnia's Institute for Missing People, told AFP.
Experts believe that the remains belong to Muslims killed at the start of the war by Bosnian Serb forces carrying out ethnic cleansing near Bosnia's eastern town of Visegrad.
"We are still searching for 824 people reported missing in the Visegrad region and believe that half of them have been thrown into the Perucac lake," Masovic added.
The search of the Perucac lake, a reservoir on the Drina river which marks the border between Serbia and Bosnia, started late July as water levels dropped to an historic low due to repairs being carried out on a dam.
The water was to be released again on Thursday, but the institute demanded the authorities to postpone it until October 1, to continue the search on some 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the river, Masovic said.
The institute has also asked Serbian authorities to start a search on their side of the Drina river where the remains have reportedly been noticed at six locations.
Bosnia's inter-ethnic war between its Croats, Muslims and Serbs claimed some 100,000 lives. Some 10,000 people are still reported as missing, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) figures.
(Source: AFP)
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Has world lost its right to exist
The world unjustice is acting again. The killers walk freely, the defenders are imprisoned, accused, or kill themselves. The lies have become the truth. The truth is jeeopardized from all possible powerful people.
THE WORLD HAS LOST ITS RIGHT TO EXIST, BECAUSE THE KILLINGS ARE JUSTIFIED, THE TRUTH IS FORBIDDEN AND HIDEN, THE LIES LIVE
It seems as though the only problems which agonize Croatia are to have good relations with good neighbor Serbia. Good neighbor Serbian Communist Yugoslav Army (JNA), killed at least 15,000 Croatians and forcibly displaced, "cleansed," some 220,000 Croats from about one-third of Croatian territory. More than 15,000 (Fifteen THOUSAND!) Croats were murdered in areas occupied by rebel Serbs, and more than 4000 are still missing. Croatians should indeed be proud of their own liberation from such a hell.
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