Missing Persons Archives

Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons is excavating the site of a suspected mass grave containing 29 Bosniak women and children killed in the village of Zecovi in the Prijedor area in July 1992. Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons said on Thursday that it is now in the second day of an excavation in the Zecovi area, at a site where 29 female and child victims could be buried.

To mark International Day of the Disappeared, relatives of people who went missing in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Albania during the 1990s wars or under Communism describe the agony of waiting decades to discover their loved ones’ fate.

The US State Department accused the Bosnian Serb authorities of attempting to deny history by annulling a report on the 1995 Srebrenica massacres which accepted that Serb forces killed thousands of Bosniaks and breached humanitarian law.

Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute said the remains of at least five people, believed to be Bosniaks killed during the 1990s war, have been exhumed in the Trnovo municipality.

Investigators from Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute who search for the remains of war victims have suffered injuries and contracted physical and mental illnesses while conducting exhumations in contaminated and dangerous terrains.

Former guard Brane Planojevic was acquitted of assisting in the killings, rape and torture of civilians and prisoners of war at a detention camp in Rogatica in 1993 and 1994. The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Brane Planojevic not guilty of taking part in war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war at the Rasadnik detention camp in Rogatica in 1993 and 1994.

Despite some shortcomings, the Hague Tribunal, which closes this month, has identified and prosecuted those responsible for grave crimes and brought some justice to people who suffered, said members of Bosnia’s Association of Victims.

The remains of a Bosniak couple who got married in Srebrenica during wartime and were then both killed in the 1995 massacres have been identified by forensic experts.

Bosnia and Herzegovina should step up the prosecution of wartime crimes and uphold the human rights of all civilian war victims, a new Council of Europe report says.

Serbian anti-war group Women in Black commemorated the 25th anniversary of the deaths of 16 Bosniaks from the Serbian town of Sjeverin who were kidnapped and killed by Serb forces in Bosnia.

Missing Persons

Bosnia Searches for Mass Grave of Women and Children

Missing Persons: Balkan Families Suffer as Search Goes On

US Accuses Bosnian Serbs of ‘Trying to Deny History’

Bosnia Discovers Five War Dead in Mass Grave

Bosnian Investigators Brave Hazards to Find Missing Persons

Bosnia Acquits Rogatica Camp Guard of Killings, Rape

Bosnian War Victims Praise Hague Tribunal’s Successes

Remains of Couple Married in Wartime Srebrenica Identified

Bosnia to Step Up Dealing With Legacy of War, CoE Says

Serbian Activists Rally for Compensation for Murdered Bosniaks

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