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SARAJEVO, January 5 (FENA) - By the end of November, last year, 76 exhumations and 28 cleanings were carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the collection of mortal remains found on the surface of the terrain.
The remains of 80 victims of the past war were exhumed, while in the same period in 2020, 53 victims were exhumed.
By the end of November, 71 victims had been identified, and five more victims of the past war had been identified in December.
Speaking for FENA, the spokesperson of the Institute for Missing Persons of BiH, Emza Fazlić, said that that the results of the Institute in the search for missing persons in 2021 were significantly better than in 2020 in all segments.
According to her, last year, when it comes to the search for missing persons, was marked by the discovery of two mass graves. One was a mass grave discovered at the Dobro Polje site, Kalinovik Municipality, where the remains of at least ten victims have been exhumed. After DNA analysis of the remains, it was determined that these remains belonged to the victims of the genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995.
Fazlić says that this was also the most remote locality where the remains of genocide victims were found, and how these victims ended up there will be determined in the investigation conducted by the Prosecutor's Office of BiH.
According to the Central Register of Missing Persons, 7,628 people are currently being searched in our country.
Fazlicćpoints out that the number of missing persons is decreasing because, on the one hand, 80 percent of missing persons have been found so far, while on the other hand, the search for missing persons has entered the most difficult phase, given that less and less accurate and reliable information on tomb locations are available.
"Investigations into the most serious cases of war crimes remain. Those who have information about the locations of the graves have decided to keep quiet about it. On the other hand, families pray only for the bones of their loved ones. However, the oath of silence has gotten stronger, regardless of the fact that almost three decades have passed since the last wr," Fazlić concluded.
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