TUZLA (AP) – Forensic experts said yesterday they had opened the tenth mass grave found near the eastern Bosnian village of Kamenica and that it may contain the bodies of up to 100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The remains of 30 to 40 people were revealed when the forensic team removed the first layer of soil, said the team’s head, Murat Hurtic. Experts have already exhumed nine mass graves and some 3,370 victims killed in the Srebrenica massacre along the 11-kilometer-(6.8 mile-) long road that leads from Srebrenica to Kamenica. Experts call the new locations “secondary mass graves” and say they are particularly difficult to work on because heavy equipment, including bulldozers, was usually used to move bodies from one grave to another. Parts from a single body are sometimes found in several different mass graves.

BELGRADE (AP) – Serbia is demanding that Kosovo authorities arrest those responsible for the killing of two Serb children five years ago. President Boris Tadic says the UN administration and local Kosovo leaders must “find those who fired machine-guns at the innocent children.” The attack in 2003 in the Kosovo village of Gorazdevac also left four Kosovo Serb children wounded. No one has been charged in the case. Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic also says “the crime in Gorazdevac must not be forgotten and the murderers must face justice.” Serbian media say a memorial ceremony was held in Kosovo yesterday for the two boys.

SOFIA (AFP) – A Bulgarian couple chained their seven-year-old boy to the kitchen sink to prevent him from misbehaving while they were at work, the daily Trud reported yesterday. Social services in Bulgaria had to intervene after being notified by neighbors in the southeastern town of Gotse Delchev, who heard the boy’s father boast about how he was managing to control his son, the paper added. According to the report, his parents began chaining the boy, Ilko, at the beginning of the summer holidays. The report said Ilko was bound by a four-meter (13-foot) chain to the sink when his mother, a cleaning lady, and his father, who worked in metallurgy, left the house. The chain was long enough to allow him to open the fridge and reach their terrace – but not to go to the toilet. His only company was the family’s dog Bucky – ironically, the dog was able to roam freely. The child told social services that he was being punished for misbehaving. His mother said her husband “was afraid his son would turn into a criminal,” Trud reported. Ilko has since been brought to an orphanage.

A Bosnian appeals court said yesterday it had freed a Bosnian Serb former soldier previously jailed for wartime rape of a Muslim woman. An appeal chamber acquitted Radmilo Vukovic, 55, of charges that he raped and physically abused a Muslim woman in the eastern town of Miljevina during the country’s 1992-1995 conflict, the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina said in a statement. Vukovic, who served with the Bosnian Serb army during the war, had been found guilty last year of the rape and sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail. The court’s statement did not elaborate on the reasons for the acquittal. (AFP)

Two Croatian Olympic rowers were injured when a bus taking them to their competition venue collided with a van in Beijing yesterday, an official and a doctor on board said. The bus was traveling from the athletes’ village to the Shunyi rowing park northeast of Beijing when it collided with a van, Beijing Olympic organizing committee spokesman Sun Weide told AFP. “There were two athletes from Croatia who were slightly injured,” he said, after speaking to local police officials. Sun said the athletes still trained after the accident but that two Chinese people in the van were seriously injured. (AFP)

Ezequiel Lavezzi and Diego Buonanotte scored a goal each yesterday to keep Argentina perfect at the Olympic soccer tournament with a 2-0 victory over Serbia. Lavezzi scored from the penalty spot in the 13th minute and Buonanotte curled in a free kick in the 81st as defending champion Argentina, which had already qualified for the quarterfinals, won Group A with nine points. Argentina will next play Group B runner-up and European under-21 champion Netherlands at Shanghai Stadium on Saturday. Serbia finished with one point, the same as Australia. Ivory Coast was second with six points. (AP)