SARAJEVO - Bosnian forensic experts have found some 35 bodies believed to be of Muslims killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, an official said Thursday.
"On the ground near Srebrenica we found the remains which we believe account for 35 people," a member of Bosnia's Muslim-led commission for missing people, Sadik Halilovic, told AFP.
It is difficult to give a precise figure because the bodies were incomplete, he said.
The remains are believed to be of Muslims killed by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995 as they attempted to escape the eastern town of Srebrenica, the scene of Europe's worst atrocity since World War II.
In just a few days following the July 1995 takeover of Srebrenica by Bosnian Serbs almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys were summarily executed in what the UN tribunal at The Hague has defined as an act of genocide.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and his then-military commander Ratko Mladic have been charged with genocide and other crimes for their alleged roles in the slaughter, but both men remain on the run.
Bosnia's 1992-95 war claimed some 200,000 lives and left 2.2 million refugees, more than half of the Balkan country's population.
So far forensic experts exhumed some 6,000 bodies in over sixty mass burial sites around Srebrenica, and on the ground in the forests around the town.
04/21/2005 11:22 GMT