The remains of more than 320 people were exhumed from...

The remains of more than 320 people were exhumed from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia which is considered to be the largest from the country's 1992-95 war. "So far we have found 253 complete skeletons and 72 detached body parts," Murat Hurtic, a member of the Bosnian Muslim commission for missing people, told AFP. "This is without a doubt the largest mass grave we have found (in Bosnia) so far... it is still impossible to estimate how many more bodies it hides." Six identification documents found in the mass grave show that at least some of the victims were Muslim civilians from the eastern towns of Vlasenica, Bratunac and Zvornik, who were executed when Bosnian Serb forces captured the towns at the outset of the war. Experts have also found body bags of the type used exclusively by the Belgrade-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) during the war. Bosnian Serbs backed by the JNA seized the mainly Muslim town of Zvornik in 1992 and persecuted its non-Serb residents. The grave is also believed to contain remains of some of the 7,000 Muslim men and boys summarily executed after Serb forces overran the UN "safe haven" of Srebrenica in July 1995. Almost eight years after the end of the 1992-95 war, which claimed some 200,000 lives, the fate of more than 16,000 missing people is still not known, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Forensic experts have so far exhumed the remains of more than 17,000 people from some 300 mass graves in Bosnia.