Forensic experts in western Bosnia are excavating a deep cave filled with bones, believed to be the tomb of more than 150 Muslims killed by Bosnian Serbs in 1992. It is thought to be a mass grave for prisoners from the former Bosnian Serb detention camp of Omarska. It seems that all of these people were killed on the spot and then thrown into the cave.
Forensic experts plan to continue digging through the cave for at least another week.
The team will make video recordings of the pit for specialists aboveground to analyze before any bodies are exhumed. Human rights investigators believe Bosnian Serbs detained and executed hundreds of Muslims at Omarska, as well as at another camp near the town of Prijedor, early in the Bosnian war. About 200,000 people were killed during the 1992-1995 conflict. More than 20,000 are missing and feared dead. Muslims, Serbs and Croats have all formed teams to research atrocities of the war and uncover remaining mass graves.