SARAJEVO - Bosnian and international workers are to resume the gruesome process of identifying bodies strewn along a forested region near Srebrenica, the Muslim town which fell to the Bosnian Serbs in July 1995. An estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people are believed to have been massacred at the time. The project, which began yesterday, is the first official examination of an open grave site this year. Experts say between 400 and 800 bodies may be lying around the site. They were victims of the Srebrenica "death march" when Muslim men were killed as they fled through the forests while escaping from the town.
About 20,000 people are missing in Bosnia, among them about 1,000 Bosnian Serbs and 1,000 Bosnian Croats. Most are Muslims, victims of Bosnian Serb ethnic cleansing early in the war in 1992. Experts say lack of local and international political will means most will remain lost and buried in mass grave sites around the country.