A reportedly uncovered burial site in a previously occupied area of Ukraine is raising concerns of atrocities seen during the Bosnian war.
A former top diplomat of Kosovo is comparing a mass burial site reportedly uncovered by Ukrainian forces to atrocities committed by Serbian authorities during the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.post Thursday, Petrit Selimi, former foreign minister of Kosovo, drew parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the mass killings of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces.
of civilians in the nearby town of Bucha, which had previously been occupied by Russians. While that site is under investigation for potential war crimes, Russia has denied wrongdoing. Serhii Bolvinov, chief police investigator for the Kharkiv region, told Sky News that the mass burial site in Izyum contained around 440 individual makeshift graves, which he called"one of the biggest burials in one liberated city."
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