Sarajevo - A new mass grave believed to contain the remains of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has been discovered in eastern Bosnia, an official said on Tuesday.
"So far we found remains which, we believe, account for up to 15 people," Murat Hurtic of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission told AFP.
Hurtic said the skeletons were crushed and compressed, proving they had been buried elsewhere before re-burial with bulldozers in the Zeleni Jadar area, about 15 kilometres south of Srebrenica.
Although no estimates of the total number of victims buried in the grave were given Hurtic said he was confident that it "contains the remains of people from Srebrenica".
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The work on the grave will continue for another week, he added.
Most Srebrenica victims found so far had been buried in a large mass grave and later moved to many other sites in an attempt by Bosnian Serbs to cover up the crime.
Bosnian Serbs overran the UN-protected Muslim enclave of Srebrenica near the end of the 1992-95 war and summarily killed about 8 000 Muslim men and boys.
Thousands of Srebrenica victims have been exhumed from about 60 mass graves around the town, with more than 2 500 of them having been identified by DNA analysis.
The main culprits - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his army chief Ratko Mladic - still remain at large.
In February the International Court of Justice, the UN's highest court ruled Srebrenica massacre was genocide and ordered Serbia to hand over Mladic to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
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