(18 Jan 1996) Serbo-Croat/Nat
The end of the fighting in Bosnia has brought more anguish to those families who can now retrieve the bodies of loved ones killed in the war.
Police and court officials from Zenica, Bosnia, have recovered the first bodies from the area as weeping relatives looked on.
Now the fighting has ended, the people of Vosuca are recovering their dead relatives and friends.
On Thursday they pulled the decapitated remains of three men from bushes along the roadside in the picturesque hills above the now Muslim village of Vosuca in Bosnia.
Weeping relatives looked on.
All that remains of these victims are their rotted clothes and their bones.
Police and court officials from Zenica say they may know who killed the three men, whose bodies have laid unburied for three and a half years.
The officials say they'll pass the details of the investigation to the U-N war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Faldil Demirovic, the brother of one of the dead men, said Serb troops killed his brother in June 1992.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-croat)
This what we found here is my brother.
Q: When was he killed?
Twenty-fifth of June 1992 in the morning hours of 5:15.
SUPER CAPTION:Faldil Demirovic
The dead man, a 38-year-old waiter from Vosuca, had been keeping watch for the advancing Serbs troops at the time.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-croat)
Now we find the first mass grave with more dead persons. According to our information there are more mass graves with more dead Bosnians. In the first grave we are investigating now we have found people who are not even buried. We just found pieces of their bones.
SUPER CAPTION: Edrez Kapkec, Bosnian judge investigating graves
There are reports of more mass graves throughout Bosnia, including one in a disused mine in northwestern Bosnia that is said to hold up to 8-thousand bodies.
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