Investigators working for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia have come to collect evidence to present at trial against those deemed responsible for this and other massacres. If Bosnia's most wanted men, former Serb commander Ratko Mladic and former leader Radovan Karadzic, ever come to trial, this evidence will be among that brought against them. Women and children were loaded on to buses and taken out of the town. Some 8,000 men are still missing and presumed dead. The dam is surrounded by rolling green hills and the ugly aluminium factory which now lies derelict and abandoned lower down the valley is hidden from view.
Trees hang heavy with spring blossom and frogs croak insistently in nearby ponds.
The dig at Brnice Dam is the first to be carried out this year relating to the fall of Srebrenica, and several other sites will be exhumed during the summer. In preparation work for the dig, investigators found some 1,500 spent shell cases scattered over the dam. Beside the gaping hole they have now dug stand several blue buckets used to collect bones found in the grave. Skulls have been found, as well as shoes and clothing. That raises the question of why somebody would be motivated to disturb the site,'' said U.N. spokeswoman Kelly Moore at the dig.