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Bosnia buries 5 more war victims

Remains buried 29 years after bloody Bosnian War

Talha Ozturk  | 01.06.2021 - Update : 01.06.2021
Bosnia buries 5 more war victims People attend funeral ceremony of Bahrija Dautovic, Idriz Dautovic, Avdija Muratovic, Dervisa Rahmanovic and Mejrusa Sahbegovic, who were killed on Bosnian War in 1992-1995, at Gornja Kalesija Cemetery in Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 1, 2021. ( Ahmed Besic - Anadolu Agency )

BELGRADE, Serbia

Five more war victims who were missing for 29 years were buried Tuesday in a funeral ceremony in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The victims, killed by Serb forces in Zvornik in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina, were buried in Gornja Kalesija Cemetery.

Ahmet Grahic, the head of Zvornik Association of Captive and Missing Families, said 787 people have been buried but the bones of hundreds who were killed during the war are still missing.

More than 2,000 Bosniak civilians were killed in Zvornik.


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