ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月7日 19時07分

Photograph by @simonnorfolkstudio

The Bosnian War started 25 years ago this week. It was the first war fought very much under the eyes of the media. In addition, it was the first conflict fought by killers who knew, before the war had even finished, that a war crimes tribunal awaited them. A peculiar consequence of this development can be found along a potholed track through un-peopled forests in the Serbian controlled part of Bosnia, at a place known as Crny Vrh. This is a ‘secondary mass grave.’ This term is a technical one and needs elucidating. ‘Primary mass graves’ are tragically common in Bosnia. Villages were captured or there was a quick shift in the front-lines: the defeated were taken to quiet places, gunned down and buried. But when post-war investigators eventually got to these locations, they found, to their astonishment, nothing. The bodies had disappeared. The perpetrators, fearing trials in The Hague, had returned secretly, often at night, often to places cleared of any possible witnesses. Using digging machinery, the primary graves had been excavated and the remains – chewed up, decomposing bodies and clothing – were taken away and hidden in remote, secret locations.
Crny Vrh is largest secondary mass grave of this kind to be discovered to date. The grave contained the remains of 629 people who had been killed and buried in the Zvornik area and then dug up and moved to this location in an attempt to hide the killers from justice. The bodies were removed to mortuaries in the Tuzla area in the summer of 2003. In the winter of 2004 it was simply a large, newly worked over hole the filled with water that had iced over during the hard winter.

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