UN war crimes investigators yesterday exposed two more mass graves at this site near Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, believed to contain the bodies of hundreds of slain Muslims.
Mr William Haglund, the leader of the team linked to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY), said they had uncovered a total of four graves at the grassy site, a few kilometres west of the former UN safe haven.
"We have two locations in two separate sites. There are some remains in each of these sites, how many I do not know," he said.
Seven bodies have so far been removed from one grave, and another has so far been shown to contain at least a dozen bodies.
The number of bodies in the other two graves, where at least one body has so far been found, is still unknown.
"Each of these graves has different logistical potential. The problem is having to be here in the first place. The problem is that these people are dead," Mr Haglund said.
In the small grave close to the roadside, one skeleton, partially clothed, could be seen. Out of a pair of light brown laced up walking boots, jutted two bare legbones, one at an awkward angle.
Two UN investigators carefully brushed away loose earth to reveal the skull, its jaw gaping wide open.
A local Serb worker did the heavy work, shovelling top soil away in the area around the skeleton. Everyone worked silently.
The work at Nova Kasaba is intended to probe for evidence to back claims made to the ICTY in The Hague of the mass executions of Muslim men following the fall of Srebrenica to the Serbs in July last year.
According to a recent UN reports, at least 3,000 and possibly up to 8,000 Muslim men were killed by the Serbs after being captured following the fall of the town.
Serb leaders, who deny any killings of civilians or prisoners, have been indicted over the allegations.
Nine of the remains found at Nova Kasaba so far have been found with their hands wired behind their backs, a UN spokesman, Mr Alexander Ivanko, said in Sarajevo.
Over the next couple of months, investigators are expected to excavate around seven more sites dotted around Bosnia and Croatia to further the Srebrenica investigation and the inquiries into alleged atrocities committed elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia.