The massacre was perpetrated by the Yugoslav Partisans after the end of World War II in Yugoslavia.
The research was initiated by the Office for Locating, Arranging and Labelling The Graves of the Victims of the Communist Regime, founded in mid-2011.
In October 2012, bodies of thirty victims were excavated from the Krivićev brijeg mass grave in Gračani.
[3] Two more graves were later located in the Gračani area, increasing the number of exhumed victims to 134.
[5] As of September 2018, the total number of bodies exhumed from seven mass graves in Gračani is 295.