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Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar was indicted for taking part in a massacre in which 57 Bosniak civilians were burned alive in a house in Visegrad in 1992. The state prosecution indicted Radomir Susnjar on Friday for his role in the June 1992 mass killing of Bosniaks who were locked into a house on Pionirska Street in Visegrad which was then set on fire.

Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons said that 456 children aged 17 and under who were killed in the 1990s war - including nine babies - have been exhumed from mass graves so far.

A new mass grave has been discovered in the locality of Koricanske Stijene, which in 1992 was site of a grisly mass killing of 200 Bosniak and Croat civilians.

Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of interior ministry police units in Sarajevo, and Jusuf Pusina, a former Bosnian interior ministry official, went on trial over the killing of eight prisoners of war in 1992. The trial of Dragan Vikic, Jusuf Pusina and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, who are all accused of crimes against prisoners of war, began at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.

A total of 911 individuals whose names are included in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national register of wartime missing persons are actually alive, and remain on the list by mistake.

The prosecution has asked the Bosnian state presidency for more money to exhume war graves after only receiving 95,000 euros from the Council of Ministers for 2017. The Bosnian state prosecutor’s office told BIRN that 190,000 KM (95,000 euros) in funding had been approved by the Council of Ministers for exhumations in 2017, but more money has been requested from the state presidency.

For a decade, the local council in Vogosca has been offering a 5,100 euro reward to anyone who helps locate wartime missing persons, but all the information offered so far has been false.

Hundreds of local residents paid their respects in Kozarac near Prijedor as the remains of eight people killed by Bosnian Serb forces during wartime were laid to rest over 20 years after they died.

Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons says it has intensified searches, exhumations and identifications of war victims from the Srebrenica, Zvornik and Mostar areas.

U nastavku suđenja Ratku Mladiću, vještakinja za demografiju Svetlana Radovanović nastojala je osporiti nalaze haških tužilaca u vezi s tijelima ekshumiranim iz masovne grobnice u rudniku Tomašica kod Prijedora.

Missing Persons

Bosnian Serb Fighter Charged with Burning Civilians Alive

465 Children Exhumed from Bosnia War Graves

Mass Grave Found Near Koricanske Stijene, Bosnia

Bosnian Police Officials’ War Crimes Trial Opens

Over 900 ‘Missing’ Bosnians Actually Alive

Bosnian Prosecution Seeks More Funds for Exhumations

Fraudsters Target Reward for Finding Missing Bosnians

Eight Bosnian War Victims Buried in Prijedor

Bosnia Steps Up Missing Persons Identifications

Mladic Witness Contests Mass Grave Exhumation Report

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