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Alekić: Process of identification of missing persons is in stagnation (VIDEO)

FENA Vernera Jakupović

SARAJEVO, August 28 (FENA) - The process of resolving the fate of persons who went missing in the wars of the 1990s on the territory of the former Yugoslavia has been stagnating for some time now, it was concluded today at a regional conference of the Associations of the Families of Missing Persons in Sarajevo under the slogan "Where are they?"

Regional cooperation of prosecutor offices in war crimes prosecution exists but it needs to be improved, as well as the cooperation of governmental commissions and institutions dealing with the issue of missing persons.

President of the Regional Coordination of the Associations of Families of the Missing Persons from the region of ​​Former Yugoslavia Semina Alekić, at the press conference after the meeting, appealed to all those who know about the locations of individual or mass graves containing the remains of the victims to point out to those places and they will be provided with discretion as they will receive guarantees that their identity will be protected.

Appeals have also been issued towards families of missing persons who did not leave blood samples in the bases of identification centers to do so in order to assist in the search process, identification of previously unidentified mortal remains, or to help with confirmation of some earlier established data by classical methods rather than by DNA method.

The identification centers in Visoko, Lukavica, Goražde, Sutin (Mostar) and Banja Luka, but also in Kosovo and Croatia, still hold unidentified remains, as their findings do not match those from the sample base, Alekić explained.

About 12,000 persons are still listed as missing in the region of former Yugoslavia, after the 1991-1999 conflicts, of whom are between seven and eight thousand in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was stated at a press conference.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has the largest number of victims whose remains have been found in the meantime but have not yet been identified because the samples do not match any of the stored blood samples of family members.

The conference was held with the financial support of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Commission on Missing Persons.

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