Bosnian forensic experts have exhumed the remains of 20 people, presumably Muslims killed by Serbs in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, an official said.

“Exhumation works at the Kaldrmica mass grave, near Milici, ended on Thursday. We have exhumed 20 complete skeletons,” Lejla Cengic, a spokeswoman for Bosnia’s Institute for Missing People, told AFP.

“The skeletons will now be examined by experts to determine the victims’ identities by DNA analysis,” she added.

The grave in the village of Kaldrmica, in the Srebrenica region, was a primary grave, meaning that the victims were killed at the site where they were buried, Cengic said.

The remains of most of those killed in the massacre in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia have been found in so-called secondary graves, into which they had been moved from an original burial place in an attempt to cover up the scale of the killings.

Bosnian Serbs killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995, in the days after they captured Srebrenica, five months before the end of Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.

So far more than 6,800 people killed in the massacre, the worst single atrocity on European soil since World War II, have been identified, according to the Institute.

Their remains were exhumed from around 100 mass graves.

The Srebrenica massacre has been qualified as genocide by two international courts — the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia — both based in The Hague.

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