Hodzici Road 7 is a secondary mass grave (also known as Snagovo 2), located near the village of Snagovo, 17 kilometres north-west of the city of Zvornik. A total of 230 remains were exhumed from the site, while 110 were identified. There are seven known mass graves in the area dubbed Hodzici Road, all of them secondary gravesites.

The Hodzici Road 7 site, which was called Snagovo 2 by the Bosnian Federal Commission on Missing Persons, was exhumed in October and November 2005. The International Commission on Missing Persons monitored the process, and its DNA analysis showed connections between this secondary gravesite and the disturbed primary gravesite called Lazete 2 (also known as Orahovac 2). A forensics report by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY on Srebrenica exhumations said that 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 6 (Snagovo 1). This indicates that remains that were dug up from primary mass grave Lazete 2 were then transferred to Hodzici Road, some ten kilometres away.

The gravesite remains unmarked, next to a country 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.

The Glogova 1 mass grave was exhumed in 2000, a year after the exhumation was completed on the Glogova 2 mass grave, both in the municipality of Bratunac in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the US provided an aerial image showing the ground at the site had been disturbed, ICTY investigators found the remains of more than 200 people, most of them killed during the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995. 

Most of the victims were male, aged from 12 to 75, while at least 26 of them were aged under 24. Eleven of them were under 17. 

When the grave was discovered, recognisable clothing was found, none of it military. Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds and a quarter of them had signs of burns.

The mass grave was located on the road from Bratunac to Konjevic Polje, in open fields, surrounded by a few houses. It remains unmarked.

ICTY forensic teams also found pieces of smashed masonry and doors at the Glogova 1 site which could have come from a warehouse in Kravica, where on July 13, 1995, Bosnian Serb soldiers executed 1,313 Bosniak men. Automatic weapons, hand grenades, and other weapons were used to kill the men inside the warehouse. Between July 14 and 16, 1995, heavy equipment arrived and removed the victims’ bodies to two large mass graves in the nearby villages of Glogova and Ravnice.

Glogova 1 and Glogova 2 are primary mass graves and initially contained many more remains, but in a subsequent cover-up operation by Bosnian Serb forces in the fall of 1995, bodies were transported from there to at least 16 reburial locations that have been discovered so far, according to the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons. 

International and domestic courts’ verdicts have found that the Engineering Unit of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade participated in burying the bodies in the primary mass graves in July 1995.

The subsequent operation to conceal the crimes that took place between August and November 1995 was described by the ICTY as “an organised and comprehensive effort… to hide the executions by exhuming the bodies from primary mass graves and reburying them in secondary graves”.

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.