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SARAJEVO, April 28 (FENA) - The Association for Social Research and Communication (UDIK) presented a publication called "Missing Persons, Memories and Media in Post-Dayton BiH and the Region" that aims to present the current status of missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, memorializing and commemorating victims and role of the media in BiH and the region.
Authors of the publication are Lejla Čengić, representative of the Missing Persons Institute of BiH, journalist Ibro Čavčić, and UDIK representative Edvin Kanka Čudić.
The Association points out that more than two decades have passed since the war in BiH, and the fate of more than 7,000 missing persons remains unknown.
“More than 25,500 missing persons have been found so far, and more than 23,500 victims of the past war have been identified and their remains have been handed over to families for burial. There are more than 2,000 unidentified remains awaiting identification at 12 autopsy and identification centers. Therefore, one of the priority tasks in the coming period is to resolve the issue of unidentified remains,” Čengić said.
According to UDIK, there are more than 3,500 memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia dedicated to the warfare of the 1990s, mainly built in the post-war period.
Čudić points out that numerous analyses have shown that many of these monuments, as well as those commemorating the victims of World War I and WWII and some earlier periods, are in fact the cause of conflict in the local communities, and thus deepen divisions and intolerance among the local population.
Čavčić believes that only objective and unbiased reporting in the post-conflict community can play an important role in the process of reconciliation, UDIK stated.
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