Exhumations in Serbia, 2001. Summary

The following account describes in brief the results of monitoring activities by the International Commission on Missing Persons for the Former Yugoslavia (ICMP) at several mass grave sites in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) conducted by authorities of the Republic of Serbia in 2001. It is written to communicate to the concerned general public, including various Family Associations, the nature of these sites, their contents, the methods used to exhume human remains and other evidence, and basic findings. This is not a legal document and does not reflect the views or findings of the governmental agencies or forensic institutes involved in the exhumations who are expected to issue their own statements.