Testifying at the Nikola Maric trial, an official from the Institute of Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that 107 missing persons have been exhumed from the municipality of Prozor, while 53 persons remain missing.
As the trial for crimes in Hadzici continues, State Prosecution witness Amor Masovic says that, in 1992 families of captured Hadzici residents approached local authorities and international forces, requesting the Serb side to exchange those persons.
The Hague Tribunal prosecution asked to reopen its case against Bosnian Serb ex-leader Radovan Karadzic to offer new evidence about a recently-discovered mass grave containing hundreds of victims.
The Bosnian prosecutor hasnt made a single plea bargain with a war crimes suspect for two years, sparking debate about whether vital information about wartime burial sites is being missed.
The methods used in Bosnia to find wartime missing persons should be implemented in post-conflict situations all over the world, a conference in Sarajevo was told.
Millions of people have gone missing worldwide because of wars, crime and natural disasters, so a better search and identification process is needed, a conference in The Hague concluded.
A trial for war crimes in Prozor was told that many graves found in the area contained victims over the age of 60, but corpses of a child and a baby had also been exhumed.
Data available to the Institute for the Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina suggests that, following the fall of Srebrenica in July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed 8,262 Bosniaks and that the International Commission for the Missing Persons, ICMP has identified more than 6,600 of them, who have been exhumed from mass graves in Eastern Bosnia says Amor Masovic, Director of the Institute, at the trial of Radovan Karadzic.
Directors of the Institute for the Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina can not reach an agreement on what to do with about 4,000 unidentified bodies in 11 ossuaries throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.