Bosnia buries 86 victims of 1992-95 war recovered from grisly ravine


Bosnian Muslims pray in front of coffins during a mass funeral in the village of Hambarine, near Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

HAMBARINE, Bosnia (Reuters) - Thousands of relatives from Bosnia and across Europe gathered in the village of Hambarine for the burial of 86 Bosniak Muslims on Saturday, 27 years after they were killed and dumped in a ravine in one of the most gruesome incidents of the Bosnian war.

The victims, mainly prisoners from the war-era detention camps for non-Serbs near the town of Prijedor, were told they were being released in a prison exchange but instead were driven to the Koricani Cliffs in central Bosnia, lined up by the edge of the ravine and shot by Bosnian Serb forces in August 1992.

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