Summary: | Forensic report on individual and mass grave exhumations in Bosnia and Hercegovina created during the Forensic Assistance Project (FAP). The report was authored by: Komar, Debra
From 15 through 17 November 1999 the Federation Commission for Missing Persons-Bosniak Side investigated four sites near the towns of Sokolac and Rogatica and recovered two individuals. Both sets of remains were surface deposits, covered by a thin accumulation of soil and leaf litter.
According to the Federation Commission, the village of Novoseoci (site 1) was inhabited exclusively by Muslims prior to the war. In August, 1992, forty-four people were reportedly killed when Bosnian Serb forces overtook the village. The number of individuals to be recovered from the site was unknown, but two to 12 people were believed to be in the house when it was destroyed.
Place of Exhumation: Rogatica
Exhumation Site: Novoseoci, Žepa , Kokavice
Date of Exhumation: 15-17 November 1999
Minimum Number of Exhumed Individuals: 002
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