MASS GRAVES IN THE ZVORNIK MUNICIPALITY AS MATERIAL EVIDENCE OF THE 1992-95 GENOCIDE AGAINST BOSNIAKS
MASS GRAVES IN THE ZVORNIK MUNICIPALITY AS MATERIAL EVIDENCE OF THE 1992-95 GENOCIDE AGAINST BOSNIAKS

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with mass graves in the Zvornik Municipality as a material evidence of genocide against Bosniaks, during the 1992-1995 aggression of Republic of Serbia and Montenegro over Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper elaborates on mass graves in the Zvornik Municipality, where bodies of Bosniaks executed from 1992 to 1995 were thrown. In addition to citizens of Zvornik, in the Zvornik area were killed and thrown into mass graves thousands of Bosniaks from the area of whole Podrinje and Bosnia and Herzegovina, internationally recognized state and the UN member. The most graves were prepared by the aggressor during the execution of genocide in and around the UN Safe Zone Srebrenica in July 1995. Exhumations of mass graves of victims of the genocide were carried out by researchers from the ICTY, the State Commission for Missing Persons, the Federal Commission for Missing Persons, the Commission for Missing Persons of the Republic of Srpska. More than 750 mass graves were found in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the end of 2016. A total of 207 exhumations, out of which 114 were mass graves, were carried out in the area of Zvornik from 19 August 1996 to 25 March 2016. In 114 mass graves, with only 27 cases of primary mass graves, a total of 9,786 victims were exhumed, and 4,997 in the area of “Dolina grobnica (The Valley of Tombs)” Kamenica.

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