The Hodzici Road 4 mass grave is one of seven mass graves found alongside the road between the village of Hodzic and the city of Zvornik in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

It was discovered in 1998 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, whose investigators determined that it is a secondary mass grave containing victims of 1995 genocide in Srebrenica.

So far, 71 individuals whose remains were found at the site have been identified. 

The grave is unmarked, and lies in a meadow between houses and farms in the village of Hodzic. 

At least 45 people whose remains were found in the grave died of gunshot wounds, and 34 had blindfolds. 

The ICTY’s analysis showed that Hodzici Road 4 is a secondary mass grave and the bodies found there can be linked with the primary mass grave Lazete 2.

Bosniak men who had been captured following the fall of Srebrenica were transported on July 14, 1995 to the Grbavci school in the village of Orahovac then killed and buried in fields known as Lazete. Forensic analysis of soil and pollen samples, evidence and aerial images of creation and disturbance dates further revealed that bodies from the Lazete 1 and Lazete 2 graves were later removed and reburied at secondary graves along the Hodzici Road.

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.

The Hodzici Road 3 mass grave is one of the seven that were found alongside a road near the village of Hozdici in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was discovered by NATO’s Stabilisation Force, SFOR in May 1998 as its personnel were doing repairs by the road. 

The exhumation of the gravesite was carried out by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, and as a result 40 people were identified, all of them killed during the fall of the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. 

The Hodzici Road 3 mass grave is unmarked and lies on the right side of a minor road connecting the village of Hodzici with the city of Zvornik. 

The ICTY forensic team found 16 blindfolds in the gravesite. At least 20 people who were buried there died from gunshot wounds. Only male bodies were found at the site. 

The ICTY’s analysis also showed that Hodzici Road 3 is a secondary mass grave and the bodies found there can be linked with the primary mass grave Lazete 2. 

Bosniak men who had been captured following the fall of Srebrenica were transported on July 14, 1995 to the Grbavci school in the village of Orahovac then killed and buried in fields known as Lazete. Forensic analysis of soil and pollen samples, evidence and aerial images of creation and disturbance dates further revealed that bodies from the Lazete 1 and Lazete 2 graves were later removed and reburied at secondary graves along the Hodzici Road.

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.

Hodzici Road 1 is a secondary mass grave, located near the village of Snagovo, some 17 kilometres north-west of the Bosnian 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. Overall, there are seven known mass graves in the area and all are secondary sites. 

The grave site was named Hodzici Road 1 because it is also close to the village of Hodzici. 

The gravesite remains unmarked and lies next to the road that leads to Hodzici.

Although initially discovered by the SFOR and investigators from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the exhumation was conducted in 2006 by the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons. The site is also known as Snagovo 4. 

The exhumation in November 2006 resulted in the remains of 90 people being identified. All the victims are believed to have been Bosniaks killed by Bosnian Serb forces following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995.

DNA analysis carried out by the International Commission on Missing Persons showed connections between this secondary gravesite and the Lazete 2 primary gravesite. 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 report said that human remains were dug up at the Lazete 2 primary mass grave and then transferred to Hodzici Road, some 10 kilometres away. 

Bosniak men who had been captured were transported on July 14, 1995 to the Grbavci school in the village of Orahovac then killed and buried in fields known as Lazete. Forensic analysis of soil and pollen samples, evidence and aerial images of creation and disturbance dates further revealed that bodies from the Lazete 1 and Lazete 2 graves were later removed and reburied at secondary graves along the Hodzici Road.

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.

The Cancari Road 13 mass grave is located in the village of Kamenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, near the city of Zvornik. 

The road has become known as the Valley of Death, as along this route, 13 mass graves have been found by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY and the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons. 

This gravesite lies next to village houses and is marked with a memorial plaque.

The exhumation by the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons in October 2002 revealed the remains of 61 people, who were all killed after the town of Srebrenica fell to the Bosnian Serb Army in July 1995. 

The bodies were reburied at the Cancari Road 13 mass grave in the autumn of 1995 after being dug up in an attempt to cover up the killings. They had initially been buried near execution sites in Srebrenica, Pilica, Kozluk, Bratunac and Zvornik in the days after July 15, 1995. Two months later, Bosnian Serb forces were ordered to remove the bodies and rebury them in more remote and hard-to-find locations.

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 and cover-up operations.

The Cancari Road 8 mass grave lies in a valley in the village of Kamenica, some ten kilometres north of the town of Zvornik in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is one of 13 secondary mass graves found along the village road, all linked with the killings of Bosniaks following the fall of Srebrenica  in 1995.

The gravesite lies unmarked, next to the village road and a small creek.

Cancari Road 8 was initially discovered in 1998 by investigators and anthropologists from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, but was only exhumed ten years later by the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons. 

The exhumation was carried out in October and November 2008 and the remains of 51 people were identified. 

DNA analysis of the remains revealed that some body parts belonged to Esad Bektic, whose partial remains were also found in a mass grave in Branjevo. It is believed that many Srebrenica victims were initially killed in Branjevo in July 1995, buried there and then dug up again in the autumn and reburied along the Cancari Road. 

After the fall of Srebrenica to Bosnian Serb forces, captured Bosniaks were brought by buses to Branjevo Military Farm for execution. Survivors described being led in groups to a meadow littered with corpses and told to turn their backs. On July 16, 1995, soldiers at Branjevo Military Farm were ordered to go some five kilometres east to the Pilica Cultural Centre to kill around 500 Bosniaks who were being detained there. Firing and explosions could also be heard that afternoon in Pilica itself, coming from the direction of the Cultural Centre. No one survived the execution. The inside of the Pilica Cultural Centre was described as having corpses “piled up on each other, just lying there scattered all over the place”. The bodies – two of which were female – were then buried at Branjevo Military Farm. All the victims were dressed in civilian clothes.

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.

This mass grave in Nova Kasaba is known as Nova Kasaba 99, a reference to the year 1999, when the gravesite was discovered by investigators from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY. 

The grave was dug by the same people who also dug another grave nearby that was found in 1996 and is known as Nova Kasaba 96. 

Nova Kasaba 99 is a primary mass grave. A total of 53 bodies that were found there have been identified, all of them linked with the killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995. 

The grave is not marked and lies next to the road in the village of Nova Kasaba. 

The mass grave is in four sections but investigators assessed it to be a single grave because the pits are so close to each other.

No blindfolds or ligatures were located in any of the sections. Almost 80 per cent of those found died of multiple gunshot wounds. The age of the victims ranges from 13 to 85 years.

The mass grave locations in the area received worldwide attention when US ambassador Madeleine Albright showed eight photographs of them at a UN Security Council session. These US satellite and aerial photographs taken around July 13 to 14, 1995 depicted people crowded onto a football field in the Nova Kasaba area. Several days later, U2 aircraft photography recorded an empty stadium, with four patches of freshly dug earth and truck tracks in a nearby field. 

“The reasons [the U.S. suspects there are mass graves] are five-fold. First, there is newly disturbed earth where refugees were known to be. Heavy vehicle tracks were there before. There is no apparent military industrial or agricultural reason for the tracks or disturbed earth. There are multiple confirming accounts from refugees. And there is no vegetation on the site,” said John Shattuck, US assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour. A year later, in 1996, the so-called Nova Kasaba 96 grave was found.

The bodies found in Nova Kasaba were mostly of Bosniak men from Srebrenica who were killed on the football pitch and in a nearby school in July 1995. 

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 four life sentences, for Srebrenica crimes.

The Cancari Road 1 grave is one of the 13 gravesites that were found along the road between the town of Zvornik and the village of Kamenica in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

The gravesite was initially discovered in 1998 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY and its chief archaeologist, Professor Richard Wright. However, the remains were only exhumed some ten years later by the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons. The exhumation in July 2009 yielded the bodies of 53 people. The Institute for Missing Persons also renamed the gravesite Kamenica 14.

The mass grave is unmarked, on the right side of the road between a meadow and a river.

Most of the victims whose remains were found were killed after the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. The Cancari Road 1 grave site, like all the other sites around the village of Kamenica, is a secondary mass grave. 

The ICTY investigation established that people found at the Cancari Road 1 site were killed in July 1995 in the nearby town of Kozluk, buried there and later reburied in Kamenica.

After the executions, the victims killed in Kozluk were covered with soil rather than being buried in pits. They were found wearing civilian clothes. Thousands of broken green glass bottles had been dumped before the execution happened, as well as labels from the nearby Vitinka water and soft drinks bottling factory, and this was one of the factors that helped to link the primary mass grave at Kozluk to the secondary mass graves at Cancari Road 1, Cancari Road 2, Cancari Road 3,  Cancari Road 7 and Cancari Road 13, as well as DNA analysis, soil analysis and the large number of bodies that had ligatures and blindfolds. 

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 four life sentences, for Srebrenica crimes.

Zeleni Jadar is an area some 20 kilometres south of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia where at least seven clandestine gravesites have been found, all of them secondary mass graves. The site called Zeleni Jadar 4 (also known as Zeleni Jadar 8) was first examined in 1998 by a team from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY. The Bosnian Federal Commission on Missing Persons renamed the gravesite Zeleni Jadar 8 and exhumed it between September and October 2007. The remains of 64 individuals were discovered.

The area remains unmarked. The clandestine grave sites were scattered along both sides of a road, some of them deeper into a forest and some in fields.

Many of the body parts found in the graves in Zeleni Jadar matched remains found at the Glogova 1 and 2 gravesites. At all of the Zeleni Jadar graves – Zeleni Jadar 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 – links with the Glogova 1 primary grave were established through the identification of body parts belonging to the same individuals found in both the Glogova 1 grave and one of the secondary graves.

At the beginning of the excavation, forensic teams from the ICTY noted that most of the bodies found were incomplete, most had clothing but relatively few had personal possessions like watches, jewellery, smoking-related items and documents. 

According to the ICTY forensic report, most of the victims had gunshot wounds, while a few had injuries from explosions and explosive devices.

At Zeleni Jadar, seven gravesites can be linked to executions at a warehouse at a farm in Kravica, close to the town of Bratunac. On July 13 and 14, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed 1,313 Bosniaks at the farm. 

Remains of the victims of a separate mass shooting in a hangar behind the Vuk Karadzic school in Bratunac, where 400 Bosniaks were detained on July 13, 1995, were also found at Zeleni Jadar.

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.

Bljeceva 3 is a secondary mass grave and one of three gravesites discovered in the village of Bljeceva, some 11 kilometres from the town of Srebrenica. The site was exhumed in 2004 by the Bosnian Federal Commission on Missing Persons and the remains of 65 individuals were found. An investigation by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, ICTY concluded that the remains belonged to Bosniaks from SRebrenica who were killed in July 1995. 

The gravesite is located between the main village road and a small mountain lane. It is a few metres away from the Bljeceva 1 and 2 mass graves. The gravesite remains unmarked, with the names of the victims listed on a house next to the Bljeceva 1 and 2 mass graves. 

An examination of the soil and the condition of the remains, which were almost entirely a mixture of body parts and skeletal elements, indicated that this was a secondary mass grave. 

The ICTY’s investigation decided that the Bljeceva 3 site was a secondary mass grave connected with primary mass graves in Glogova, and that the remains belonged mostly to the victims of a massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in a farm warehouse in Kravica.

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.

Bljeceva 2 is a secondary mass grave located in the village of Bljeceva, some 11 kilometres from the town of Srebrenica. It is one of three gravesites discovered in this area. The site was exhumed in 2004 by the Bosnian Federal Commission on Missing Persons. DNA examination by the International Commission on Missing Persons showed that 81 people whose remains were found were Bosniaks reported missing from Srebrenica in July 1995.

The gravesite was discovered on a meadow, next to the small village road. It was approximately 30 metres long and two-and-a-half metres deep. Most of the forensic evidence found was personal belongings and documents.  

Items of particular interest included what could have been a Dutch newspaper article that was found in a bag. The print of the newspaper was well preserved and dated January 10, 1995. A bent road sign with the name of the village of Kravica was also found in the grave.

A large amount of food items were discovered, mainly pre-packed meals, as well as eating utensils.

An examination of the soil and the condition of the remains, which were almost entirely a mixture of body parts and skeletal elements, indicated that this was a secondary mass grave. 

The gravesite is marked with a memorial plaque and the names of the victims are listed on a house next to the gravesite.

An investigation by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia concluded that the Bljeceva 2 gravesite was a secondary mass grave connected with primary mass graves in Glogova and that the remains belonged mostly to the victims of a massacre in a farm warehouse in Kravica.

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.