Cerska is a primary grave in the Cerska Valley on the main road from Konjevic Polje to Nova Kasaba, 27 kilometres north-west of the town of Srebrenica. It was discovered and exhumed in July 1996 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY as it collected evidence relating to the Srebrenica genocide by documenting injuries, identifying the times and causes of death of the victims and corroborating witness testimonies.The identification process was led by the Federal Commission for Missing Persons (later known as the Missing Persons Institute).

The grave was undisturbed and contained 150 remains of male victims of ages estimated to range from 14 to 50 years at the time of death. One witness to the killings said that on July 13, 1995, three buses full of male prisoners were seen being driven along the road in the direction of the Cerska valley, followed by an armoured personnel carrier. Shortly afterwards, intensive shooting was heard and a digger was then seen entering the walley. 

The Cerska mass grave was identified in July 1995 using aerial images of an embankment on the south-west side of the road. The aerial images show there were no signs of disturbed earth at the site before July 7, 1995, but footage captured on July 27 shows a new mound of earth has appeared, indicating digging at the site.

The location of the mass grave, next to the road and a few houses in the village of Macesi, around four kilometres from Konjevic Polje, remains unmarked. 

The evidence found at the site indicated that the victims’ wrists were bound behind their backs with wire ligatures. It appeared from the location of shell casings that they were placed on the roadside while their executioners stood across the road. Soil from the north-east side of the road was used to cover the bodies where they fell. 

Of the 150 victims, only one was not killed by gunshots. The hands of 24 victims were tied, and many more lengths of wire were found near other remains. A total of 147 of the victims were dressed in civilian clothing. ICTY investigators collected approximately 189 shell casings from the surface of the ground at the site and 67 more were discovered during the exhumation and autopsy process. 

Expert witness Dusan Janc at the Radovan Karadzic trial explained that the Cerska gravesite contained not only victims from Kravica warehouse where more than 1300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica were killed, but also victims from the Bratunac school building and bodies of people, who were killed alongside the main road leading to Bratunac.

A protected ICTY witness codenamed Witness M’s eyewitness account of the crime, which said that buses followed by an earth loader drove up the Cerska Valley road into a wooded area, roughly corresponds in time to intercepted communications on July 13, 1995 in which Colonel Milanovic, the Chief of Anti-Aircraft Defence of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, asked for engineering equipment to be sent to Konjevic Polje.

The ICTY’s trial chamber in the case against the Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, Radoslav Krstic, did not consider the evidence and this account sufficient to implicate the Drina Corps in the Cerska Valley executions on July 13.

Krstic however was found guilty of genocide in the first ICTY verdict to establish that genocide was committed against Bosniaks from Srebrenica. He was sentenced to 46 years in prison, although the sentence was subsequently shortened to 35 years.

Crni Vrh is a secondary mass grave that was discovered in 2003 near the village of Snagovo, 16 kilometres south-west of the city of Zvornik. It is one of the largest mass graves to have been discovered in Bosnia and Herzegovina – more than 40 metres long, five metres wide and three metres deep. The remains of 629 bodies were exhumed from the grave by the International Commission on Missing Persons, the Bosnian Prosecutor’s Office and the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, while 537 were identified. 

The remains of the victims buried at Crni Vrh had been transferred from at least two primary graves elsewhere in an attempt to hide the traces of their killings. They were found to be men, women and children from villages in the Zvornik area who were killed in 1992. They are thought to have been moved from their initial resting places in 1995 or early 1996. Some of the victims were found in Yugoslav People’s Army body bags, as were bodies found at the Ramin Grob gravesite. 

The gravesite at Crni Vrh remains unmarked, next to a mountain lane, surrounded by woods and scattered garbage. The local rubbish dump is located a few hundred metres away from the gravesite. Within walking distance from Crni Vrh, there are numerous secondary mass graves, such as gravesites along the Hodzici Road that are connected to the Srebrenica executions. 

Among the remains found at the site were those of the Ribic family, who were of Roma origin. According to the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, nine members of the Ribic family were killed, including children, the youngest of whom was two. The killers were identified as members of a paramilitary unit from Serbia called Sima’s Chetniks, led by Sima Bogdanovic. The Belgrade Court of Appeals acquitted six members of the Sima’s Chetniks unit for killing 27 Roma civilians. But three of them – Zoran Alic, Zoran Djurdjevic and Tomislav Gavric – were convicted of inhumane treatment, violation of physical integrity, sexual humiliation and rape. Simo Bogdanovic died during the trial.

Some of the victims identified at Crni Vrh were killed at the Celopek Culture House, near Zvornik, which was used as a detention facility for Bosniaks from the village of Divic from May to July 1992. The detention facility was run by the Yellow Wasps paramilitary unit, the Bosnian Serb Army and the Zvornik Territorial Defence force. The White Eagles paramilitary unit frequently visited the facility and tortured, sexually abused and executed detainees.

At the trial of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, a protected witness testified that he had seen two lorries driving from Karakaj near Zvornik to Crni Vrh. The witness followed the lorries and saw an already prepared grave into which 30 to 50 male bodies were unloaded. He also saw a number of  arms and legs being unloaded into the grave.

At the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY, a protected witness codenamed B-1775, one of the men responsible for the transportation of bodies from the Zvornik area to mass graves, testified that bodies from the Ramin Grob gravesite were dug up by Bosnian Serb forces and then transported to the secondary gravesite at Crni Vrh in an attempt to conceal the crime. The witness was also involved in transportation of bodies from Zvornik to other locations on the order of a member of a paramilitary unit called the Serbian Volunteer Guard, better known as the Tigers, led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan.

The ICTY convicted Mico Stanisic, the wartime interior minister of Republika Srpska, and Stojan Zupljanin, chief of the Bosnian Serb police’s Banja Luka Security Services Centre, of committing crimes in 20 Bosnian municipalities including Zvornik in 1992, and sentenced them to 22 years in prison. 

The Serbian Supreme Court in 1998 sentenced Dusan Vuckovic, leader of the Yellow Waps paramilitary group, to ten years in prison for killing 16 Bosniak civilians and wounding 20 others at the Cultural Centre in Celopek on June 28, 1992. Vuckovic was indicted again in 2005, alongside six other suspects, for committing war crimes in Zvornik and the surrounding area against civilians from early May to mid-July 1992, but the proceedings against him were terminated after he was found dead in prison. His five co-defendants were convicted, however: Darko Jankovic was sentenced to 15 years in prison, Dragan Slavkovic to 13 years, Ivan Korac to nine years, Sinisa Filipovic to three years and Goran Savic to 18 months.

Ramin Grob (also known as Glumina) is a primary mass grave located in the village of Glumina, some eight kilometres north-west of the city of Zvornik. The gravesite was found in the grounds of an existing Muslim cemetery called Ramin Grob. In October 1998, the Bosnian Missing Persons Commission exhumed the remains of 274 individuals from the gravesite, while 271 were identified.

According to the Missing Persons Commission, more than 700 people were reported missing from Glumina and several nearby villages in early 1992 and were suspected to have been killed and buried in the vicinity. Witnesses reported that during a two-to-three-week period in April 1992, several large trucks were seen coming to the Ramin Grob cemetery, and numerous large, dark-coloured bags were removed from the trucks. Their description of these bags was consistent with the bags discovered at the Ramin Grob gravesite. The bags bore the insignia of the Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA. Of the exhumed bodies, 208 were found buried in body bags, while the remaining 66 were not. 

The cause of death determined by forensic pathologists was gunshot wounds in 246 of the 274 cases. All of the bodies found, two females and 272 male, wore civilian clothing. The ages of the identified bodies ranged from 14 to 80 years, and they came from Glumina and the nearby villages of Drinjaca, Kostijerovo and Musici. 

In 2016, 20 bodies exhumed from the site were buried as anonymous victims, as no one was able to identify them. The Ramin Grob gravesite remains unmarked. 

A protected witness codenamed B-1775, one of the men responsible for the transportation of victims’ bodies from the Zvornik area to mass graves, testified at the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY that some bodies from Ramin Grob were dug up by Bosnian Serb forces in an attempt to cover up the crime and then transported to a secondary gravesite Crni Vrh. The witness was also involved in transportation of bodies from Zvornik to other locations on the order of a member of a paramilitary unit called the Serbian Volunteer Guard, better known as the Tigers, led by Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan.

At the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY, a protected witness codenamed B-1455, who was held captive with other Bosniaks at the Cultural Centre in Drinjaca, near Zvornik, which was used as a detention facility by the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade in May 1992, recalled seeing members of Arkan’s Tigers entering the room and beating people for several hours. The same day, after Arkan’s paramilitaries left, the witness recalled members of another paramilitary unit, the White Eagles, abusing and torturing the detainees and then taking groups outside to execute them. The witness survived but his father and three brothers were among those killed, and their bodies were exhumed from the Ramin Grob gravesite in 1998. 

Belgrade Higher Court sentenced two former Territorial Defence forces fighters in Zvornik, Branko Grujic and Branko Popovic, to six and 15 years in prison respectively for war crimes against civilians in the Zvornik municipality in 1992. The Bosnian state court is currently trying Cvijan Tomanic for taking part in the persecution and killings of the Bosniak civilians in Zvornik as a member of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade. The Bijeljina District Court acquitted Milan Ignjatovic of participating in the shootings at the Cultural Centre in Drinjaca.

Verdicts handed down by the ICTY, the Bosnian state court and Belgrade Higher Court have sentenced political leaders of Republika Srpska, the president of Zvornik’s interim municipal government and 17 Bosnian Serb Army soldiers, including one commander, to a total of 186 years and nine months in prison, plus two life sentences, for wartime crimes in the Zvornik area. No member of Arkan’s Tigers has been convicted of crimes in Zvornik.

Hrastova Glavica is an underground cave located about 15 kilometres from the town of Sanski Most in north-west Bosnia and Herzegovina. The remains of 121 victims of a massacre that took place on August 5, 1992 were identified. All but two of them were detainees from the Keraterm and Omarska camps near Prijedor; the other two are believed to have been killed during World War Two. 

In 1992 detainees were taken by buses to Hrastova Glavica, where they were killed and thrown in a pit that was about 20 metres deep. They had previously been tortured at the Keraterm and Omarska camps. 

In 2012, the Izvor Association of Prijedor Women and the Association of Former Camp Prisoners from Sanski Most installed a memorial to the victims at the Hrastova Glavica cave. It includes two plaques bearing the names of those killed in 1992 and the two victims from World War Two.

The location was discovered due to the only survivor of the massacre, Ibrahim Ferhatovic, who was later killed by Bosnian Serb forces, but before his death he managed to tell the story of the massacre to someone who later testified as a protected witness at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. 

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Missing Persons Commission, together with the Physicians for Human Rights, recovered the victims’ remains from the underground cave in December 1998. According to the forensic report, all victims were males between 17 and 60 years of age and most had skeletal evidence of gunshot trauma. A lot of clothing was found, mostly civilian. 

So far, 37 Bosnian Serbs have been sentenced to a total of 617 years in prison for crimes committed during the war in the Prijedor area. Among them was Milomir Stakic, the wartime president of the Serb-controlled Prijedor municipality Crisis Staff and head of the Municipal Council for National Defence in Prijedor, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

The Koricani Cliffs on Mount Vlasic in central Bosnia and Herzegovina were both a site for killings and a clandestine gravesite used by Bosnian Serb forces during the war in 1992. The remains of 177 people, mostly Bosniaks and Croats, have been identified in four exhumations carried out between 2003 and 2017. 

The cliffs, above a ravine 300 to 400 metres deep, lie on the road between the towns of Travnik and Prijedor in territory considered to be a key stronghold of the Bosnian Serb Army for much of the war. 

Since the war, there have been several attempts to mark the location of the mass grave by families of the victims, but plaques have always subsequently been removed. Each year, families commemorate the dead by throwing roses into the ravine.

On August 21, 1992, a large group of civilian detainees from the Trnopolje prison camp were being transported by Bosnian Serb forces to Bosnian government-controlled territory in Travnik. As the convoy reached Mount Vlasic, about 200 unarmed men were taken out and executed. Only 12 of them survived. 

As the ravine is so deep, the terrain was extremely difficult for investigators to exhume the bodies, and only partial remains of many victims were found. 

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia convicted Darko Mrdja, a member of the so-called intervention squad, a Bosnian Serb special police unit in the town of Prijedor, of directly participating in the unloading, guarding, escorting and shooting of the unarmed men at Koricani Cliffs. Mrdja pleaded guilty and apologised to the victims. 

Domestic courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina also prosecuted several cases linked with the killings at Koricani and convicted police officers Marinko Ljepoja, Radoslav Knezevic, Zoran Babic, Milorad Skrbic, Dusan Jankovic, Zeljko Stojnic and Sasa Zecevic. 

Prijedor is the area with the largest number of convicted war criminals in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A total of 37 Bosnian Serbs have been found guilty of committing crimes in the area and have been sentenced to a total of 617 years in prison.

Jakarina Kosa is a secondary mass grave, located in the Ljubija iron ore mining complex, 18 kilometres from the city of Prijedor. Also located within the Ljubija complex are the Tomasica mine, where one of the largest primary mass graves in the country was discovered, and the Omarska mine, where a detention camp was set up by Bosnian Serb authorities at the beginning of the war.

Exhumations at the Jakarina Kosa site were first carried out in 2001, when more than 300 body parts were exhumed. In July 2015, there was a second exhumation, and more than 600 body parts were discovered. In total, remains belonging to 311 individuals have been identified at the Jakarina Kosa gravesite.

Expert reports by the International Committee on Missing Persons based on DNA analysis showed that remains from the same individuals were found at both Tomasica and Jakarina Kosa. 

The remains from Tomasica and Jakarina Kosa were identified as those of Bosniaks and Croats from the town of Kozarac, the city of Prijedor and the villages of Biscani, Hambarine, Rizvanovici, Rakovcani, Carakovo and Zecovi, as well as those of detainees held at the Omarska and Keraterm detention camps in the Prijedor area. The bodies found at Jakarina Kosa were wearing civilian clothing.

The gravesite at Jakarina Kosa is located around five kilometres down a road from the main building at the former Ljubija mine. It is not easily reachable, as the road is unpaved and full of potholes and the gravesite is located deep inside a pit. It remains unmarked.

The primary mass grave at Tomasica was partly dug up by the Bosnian Serb Army and the local police in 1993 and a large number of bodies were taken away and reburied  at Jakarina Kosa, 37 kilometres away, as part of an attempted cover-up of the killings. 

According to the Missing Persons Institute, the process of transportation of the bodies lasted for two weeks at last. Locals around the Jakarina Kosa site were ordered to evacuate during this period so that they could not be witnesses to what was happening. 

The transportation of the bodies from Tomasica to Jakarina Kosa was well-organised and was carried out at night. The incompletely decomposed body parts that were loaded onto trucks left traces of bodily fluids on the streets, and water tanks were provided to clean up the streets and the trucks after the loads were transported. The remains were unloaded from the trucks into the pit at Jakarina Kosa and then mined in order to close up the pit and prevent further access to the site. 

Prijedor is the area with the largest number of convicted war criminals in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A total of 37 Bosnian Serbs have been found guilty of committing crimes in the area and have been sentenced to a total of 617 years in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia gave Milomir Stakic, wartime president of the Serb-controlled Prijedor municipality Crisis Staff, the highest sentence for crimes in Prijedor – 40 years in prison.

Stari Kevljani is a secondary mass grave located in the village of Kevljani, 20 kilometres from the city of Prijedor. The grave was exhumed in August 2004 by the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY. DNA analysis showed that the remains of 456 individuals were buried at the site.

Stari Kevljani is one of the largest mass graves to have been discovered in the Prijedor area. The grave was 20 metres long and five metres wide and deep. Of 456 remains found there, 354 were identified.

The village of Kevljani is around four kilometres from the Omarska mine complex, where the Bosnian Serb Army had a wartime detention camp in 1992. Several other mass graves have been discovered in the same village, one of them not far from the Stari Kevljani site. 

Many of those identified from the Stari Kevljani gravesite were Bosniaks and Croats men who were detained and last seen in the Omarska camp, or in two other camps in the Prijedor municipality, Keraterm and Trnopolje. Forensic evidence showed that the cause of death in the majority of cases was gunshots, and that a number of the victims had bone fractures. A significant number of the individuals who were identified were political, administrative and religious leaders, academics and well-known public figures from the Prijedor municipality. 

Locals in Kevljani marked the gravesite with a memorial plaque engraved with the words: “At this site in 2004, the largest mass grave in Bosanska Krajina, Stari Kevljani, was found with a total of 456 innocent victims from the Prijedor municipality.” The gravesite is located in a meadow in the village, next to a house.

A witness at the trial of Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic trial testified that torture and killings happened daily in the Omarska camp. Up to 6,000 people were held at Omarska camp while it was open in 1992, over a period of three months. Mass executions also started at the end of July 1992. Detainees were forced to clean the areas where people were killed and load their bodies onto trucks to be taken away. 

The camp was closed on August 21, 1992 after visiting British journalists who exposed the inhumane conditions and war crimes in the camp. The detainees were then transferred to other camps in the area. According to the Regional Union of Associations of Detainees from the Banja Luka Region, around 700 people held at the Omarska camp died, although not all of them were killed inside the camp itself. 

The Hague Tribunal has convicted 11 people of committing crimes at detention camps in the Prijedor area, and the Bosnian state court has convicted four more. Zeljko Mejakic, the highest-ranking official at the Omarska detention camp, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for crimes against humanity.

Prijedor is the area with the largest number of convicted war criminals in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A total of 37 Bosnian Serbs have been found guilty of committing crimes in the area and have been sentenced to a total of 617 years in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia gave Milomir Stakic, wartime president of the Serb-controlled Prijedor municipality Crisis Staff, the highest sentence for crimes in Prijedor – 40 years in prison.

The Tomasica mass grave was discovered by the Bosnian authorities in September 2013, close to a large mining complex, approximately 15 to 20 kilometres south-east of the city of Prijedor.  An area of 70 metres by 120 metres was excavated over 79 days. The remains of 435 people were found; 274 were identified. It was one of the single largest mass graves to be found in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The remains were mostly those of war victims who were killed in various places around Prijedor from 1992 to 1995. 

The location of the mass grave remains unmarked, even though it lies in a populated area, some 15 minutes’ drive from Prijedor. Close to the gravesite are a number of houses and a football pitch. Before the war, the area was owned by the state and used by the Ljubija mining company. 

The exact location of the mass grave was revealed to the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute by a former Bosnian Serb soldier who took part in the cover-up of the killings, but wanted to stay anonymous. The bodies were mostly those of Bosniaks, most of whom were killed in the city of Prijedor, the village of Biscani or nearby Keraterm and Omarska prison camps, then loaded onto trucks and dumped in pits at the Tomasica site, some of which were as deep as nine metres. Twenty-nine of the bodies found at Tomasica were those people killed in the infamous ‘Room 3’ at the Keraterm camp in 1992.

The Tomasica mass grave is mostly a primary mass grave which initially contained many more than 435 bodies. During the 1990s, more than 350 of the bodies were dug up and buried again in other locations, including a pit in Jakarina Kosa, 40 kilometres from Tomasica, in the second attempt at a cover-up. 

Before the main discovery in 2013, there were several other attempts to find bodies of war victims around the Tomasica mine. In 2004, the remains of 24 people were found, while two years later, ten bodies were discovered. 

A further attempt was made in July 2020 when the authorities launched an exhumation acting on information from a local Serb, but no new discoveries were made. 

Prijedor is the area with the largest number of convicted war criminals in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A total of 37 Bosnian Serbs have been found guilty of committing crimes in the area and have been sentenced to a total of 617 years in prison. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia gave Milomir Stakic, wartime president of the Serb-controlled Prijedor municipality Crisis Staff, the highest sentence for crimes in Prijedor – 40 years in prison.

Hodzici Road 2 (also known as Snagovo 3) is a secondary mass grave, located near the village of Snagovo, some 17 kilometres north-west of the city of Zvornik. The grave was originally found by troops from NATO’s Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFOR, in 1998, while diverting a road around a landslide. There are seven known mass graves in the area, all secondary sites. It was named Hodzici Road because the village of Hodzici is nearby. A total of 160 human remains have been exhumed.

This secondary mass grave, which was called Snagovo 3 by the Bosnian Federal Commission on Missing Persons, was investigated by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY in 1998 and responsibility for exhuming it was handed over to the Bosnian government in 2001. 

DNA analysis carried out by the International Commission on Missing Persons showed connections between this secondary gravesite and the disturbed primary gravesite Lazete 2 (also known as Orahovac 2). According to the ICTY’s forensic report on Srebrenica exhumations, this means that the remains of one individual were found in at least two different graves. The investigation also showed DNA connections between this site and Hodzici Road 1 (also known as Snagovo 4) and Hodzici Road 3. This indicates that human remains were dug up at the Lazete 2 primary mass grave and transferred to Hodzici Road, some 10 kilometres away. 

Forensic analysis of soil/pollen samples, evidence and aerial images of creation/disturbance dates, further revealed that bodies from the primary mass graves Lazete 1 and Lazete 2 were dug up and reburied at secondary graves in Snagovo.  

The Hodzici Road gravesite remains unmarked, on a meadow next to a rural mountain road, surrounded by woods.

ICTY verdicts found that captured Bosniak men from Srebrenica were transported on July 14, 1995 to a school in the village of Orahovac. In the early afternoon, Bosnian Serb Army Zvornik Brigade personnel under the supervision of Drago Nikolic,a security officer with the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade, and Milorad Trbic, Assistant Commander for Security with the Zvornik Brigade, then transported the captives to a nearby field, where personnel, including members of the 4th Battalion of the Zvornik Brigade, executed them with automatic weapons.

In related verdicts, the ICTY’s trial chamber found Radislav Krstic, the Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, guilty of genocide against Bosniaks from Srebrenica – its first verdict establishing that the Srebrenica masacres constituted genocide. Krstic was sentenced to 46 years in prison, although the sentence was subsequently shortened to 35 years.

The ICTY also found that Ljubisa Beara, the chief of security of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Main Staff, was told to organise, coordinate and facilitate the detention, transportation, summary execution and burial of the Bosniak victims murdered at Orahovac. Beara was assisted by, among others, commander Vujadin Popovic, Chief of Security of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, as well as Nikolic and Trbic. 

Beara, Popovic, Nikolic and Trbic were found to have supervised, facilitated and overseen the Orahovac executions, and the ICTY convicted them of genocide. Vidoje Blagojevic, commander of the Bratunac Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for aiding and abetting the murder and persecution of Bosniaks in the Srebrenica area, as well as aiding and abetting the murder of Bosniaks in Bratunac. Dragan Jokic, chief of engineering of the Zvornik Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, was sentenced to nine years in prison for the murders of Bosniaks in Orahovac, at the Branjevo Military Farm in Pilica and in Kozluk, and for providing engineering resources and personnel to dig mass graves for the executed victims.

According to the Federal Institute for Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the remains of 818 Bosniaks from Srebrenica were discovered at seven secondary gravesites in the Snagovo area.

Ravnice is a primary mass grave, located 20 kilometres north-west of the town of Srebrenica. It is six kilometres from an agricultural warehouse in Kravica where more than 1,300 Bosniaks from Srebrenica were executed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. According to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, there were no signs that the gravesite was disturbed or that bodies were moved on purpose.

In August 2000, the ICTY exhumation team initially discovered 34 bodies at the site called Ravnice 1. The rest of the exhumation process continued from July and August 2001, where 172 more bodies were exhumed. This part of the exhumation was done by the Bosnian Missing Persons Commission while the ICTY monitored the process. The second exhumation at the same location was named Ravnice 2. However, Ravnice 1 and 2 are considered to be one mass grave, from which a total of 258 human remains were exhumed.

Most of the remains were discovered on the surface of the steep sloping ground at the site and the bodies were reduced to skeletons as they had been exposed for more than five years to the atmosphere and to the attention of animals. Some bodies were covered with earth, while others were not and had rolled down the slope until they were stopped by trees and fences.

During the exhumation of Ravnice 1 and 2, materials such as concrete, plaster and other building material were found within the grave. These were considered to bе indistinguishable from materials found at the Kravica warehouse execution site and the Glogova 1 and Glogova 2 mass graves, as well as the secondary mass graves at Zeleni Jadar 5 and 6. Of particular interest was а dual-coloured piece of painted polystyrene foam found at Ravnice 2. This piece of foam was identical to foam lettering on the northern face of the Кravica warehouse above an entrance doorway.

The ages of the victims at Ravnice potentially ranged from eight to 90 years old at the time of their deaths. All of them had been shot, often multiple times. There was evidence of at least 700 shots having been fired.
All of the bodies were male and wore civilian clothing. Fourteen of them were 17 years of age or younger.
The Ravnice site remains unmarked on a steep slope next to the road in the woods. Since then, the warehouse at Kravica has changed little, although access to it is not allowed as it is now privately owned.

From July 12 to 13, 1995 around 5,000 Bosniak men from Srebrenica were captured by the Bosnian Serb Army. On July 13, more than 1,300 Bosniaks were transported to the Kravica warehouse, where they were executed with automatic rifles and hand grenades. Between July 14 and 16, heavy equipment arrived and removed the victims’ bodies to two large mass graves in the nearby villages of Glogova and Ravnice.

Nedeljko Milidragovic, Aleksa Golijanin, Milivoje Batinica, Aleksandar Dacevic, Bora Miletic, Jovan Petrovic, Dragomir Parovic and Vidosav Vasic are accused of organising and participating in the shooting of more than 1,300 civilians in the warehouse. The Serbian prosecution charged them in 2015 and the trial opened in February 2017, but proceedings have been plagued by delays.

So far, the ICTY and domestic courts in the Balkans have sentenced a total of 47 people to more than 700 years in prison, plus five life sentences, for Srebrenica crimes.