Bosnia finds 59 victims of wartime cliff massacre

Bosnian forensic experts said Wednesday they completed exhumation work of a mass grave that revealed the bodies of at least 59 Croat and Muslim victims of a wartime cliff massacre. "The remains exhumed account for at least 59 people," Bosnian Missing Persons Commission spokeswoman Lejla Cengic told AFP. "An unknown number of remains that had been burned were also found but their number is still impossible to establish before DNA analysis," Cengic said.
The exhumation was seen as one of the toughest from Bosnia's 1992-1995 war as the remains were found at the bottom of the Koricanske Stijene cliff inaccessible by foot. Forensic experts were forced to descend down a 300-metre (990-foot) rockface using climbing gear. The victims were forced to kneel at the edge of the cliff, shot by a firing squad and the bodies pushed into the ravine, according to accounts from 12 people who survived the massacre.