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Forensic experts said they exhumed remains of 54 Srebrenica victims. Bosnia's Institute for Missing People said the remains were exhumed from three mass graves under a garbage dump site. Five more graves were found at the site.

Source: Associated Press.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle urged Serbia to stop challenging Kosovo's independence and instead focus on a bid to join the European Union. Westerwelle said this during a visit to the Balkans. Germany disagrees with a resolution Serbia has presented to the UN General Assembly calling for further talks on Kosovo's status. Westerwelle also warned Serbia to avoid confrontation with the EU over Kosovo.

Serbia indicated they would not back down.

The state prosecutor's office in Bosnia Herzegovina said 37-year-old former Bosnian police officer Dragan Neskovic was arrested in the northeastern town of Bijeljina. He was arrested for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Source: Voice of America.

KFOR officially transferred the task of guarding the Serb orthodox monastery in Gracanica to the Kosovo police. The Serb Orthodox Church opposed the decision. The Gracanica monastery is one of the most important Orthodox sites in Kosovo.

EULEX deputy chief Roy Reeve said seven judges were assigned to the court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica. The judges were assigned in order to reduce the backlog in 20,000 unresolved cases. Reeve said that the EU is trying to form trial chambers made up of Serb, ethnic Albanian and EULEX judges. The court in Kosovska Mitrovica has not operated at full capacity for over two years.

A former senior UNPROFOR observer, British Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Mole, discussed the siege of Sarajevo. He said that during the fall of 1992, the army of the Bosnia Serb Army (BSA) shelled the city repeatedly and that about 15 people a day were killed.

Karadzic has repeatedly called the shelling of Sarajevo a "myth" designed to draw NATO into the conflict.

ICTY judges have granted Karadzic two weeks to study video and audio footage that was seized from Ratko Mladic. Originally, Karadzic had requested a three week break.

B92 reported that it is believed in Serbia that Croatia may have a secret list of war crimes suspects apart from the list that was made public July 17. Croatia denied the existence of a secret list.

The public list contains the names of 1,534 people. Of those, 538 have been convicted for war crimes, 563 charged, while 433 of them are under an investigation.

In Bosnia, four former Serb soldiers were charged with genocide for their alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. They are accused of killing 800 Bosnian Muslim men and boys outside Srebrenica. Three of the Serbs were arrested in February, and one was arrested in April.

A suspected mass grave site near the town of Raska has not resulted in any forensic evidence. However, the investigation will continue as the sample may have been taken from the wrong location.

See:
Serbia: mass grave investigation ordered (May 18, 2010)
Mass grave discovered in Serbia (May 11, 2010)

Source: B92

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