Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Serbia

Office of the Serbian Government

Srđan Cvetković, Secretary

Websitewww.komisija1944.mpravde.gov.rs

The Commission on Concealed Mass Graves in Serbia (Serbian: Komisija za otkrivanje tajnih masovnih grobnica u Srbiji) is an office of the Serbian Government whose task is to find and document mass grave sites from the Second World War and the period immediately after it. It was established in 2009.^[1]

In 2010, the commission announced that its first investigations would be in Zaječar in eastern Serbia.^[2] On April 29, 2010 all documents relating to the commission's work were unsealed from secrecy.^[3]

After one year of operation, the commission announced that it had found 190 potential grave sites and had collected information on over 59,000 victims.^[4] The commission has prompted Serbian president Boris Tadić to call for a committee of Serbian and Hungarian academics to investigate war crimes committed by both sides in Vojvodina during the war.^[5]

Members

Slobodan Radovanović - Chairman of the Commission
Slobodan Homen
Ivan Bulatović
Blagoje Peruničić

Organization

A local branch of the commission has been established for the Zaječar District.^[6]

Exhumations

Boljevac - In 2010, the remains of at least 26 people were discovered in a mass grave.^[7]

Findings

By November, 2010: 190 potential grave sites and collected information on over 18,000 victims.^[8]
By December, 2011: 206 potential graves sites and collected information on over 36,000 victims.^[9]

References

^ "Novosti": Počinje otkopavanje, B92
^ Otkopavanja u Zaječaru od sledećeg meseca
^ Dostupni dokumenti za otkrivanje stradanja iz 1944.godine, Radio Television of Vojvodina
^ Evidentirano 190 grobnica i 18.000 žrtava
^ Kosti streljanih trunu pod najlonom
^ U Smederevskom okrugu likvidirano 466 osoba, Danas. June 24, 2010.
^ Otkriveno 200 tajnih grobnica komunističkog režima
^ Evidentirano 190 grobnica i 18.000 žrtava
^ Popisano 36.000 žrtava komunističkog režima