BELGRADE, June 6 /SRNA/ – Seven Serbs killed in the area of Croatia and the former Republika Srpska Krajina in the 1990s were identified in Zagreb, the Veritas Documentation Centre said on Thursday.
Đuro Bubalo /80/, of Ličko Petrovo Selo near Korenica, whose mortal remains were exhumed in October 2018 from an individual grave in Plitvička Jezera was identified.
Veritas says that Ilija Kordić /63/, his brother Stojan Kordić /65/, of Rudopolje near Otočac, whose mortal remains were exhumed in October 2018 from individual graves in Rudopolje, have also been identified.
Đorđe Mamuzić /37/, of Podvelebit near Gračac, whose mortal remains were exhumed in October 2006 from a mass grave in Žitnik, and Željko Uzelac /35/, of Zalužnica near Otočac, whose mortal remains were exhumed in October 2018 from a mass grave in Vodoteč, have also been identified.
Veritas states that Rade Ralić /41/ of Blato near Plaški, whose mortal remains were exhumed in October 2018 from an individual grave in Otočac, has also been identified.
The statement reads they were all killed in a Storm operation in August 1995.
Ana Krajnović /60/ of Kusonja near Pakrac, whose remains were exhumed in December 2000 from an individual grave in Kusonje, who was killed in December 1991, has been identified.
Veritas says that, according to a statement by the Croatian line ministry, the Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology Zagreb identified last week the remains of six persons who were killed in 1995, and who were exhumed from the graves in the Lika-Senj County and one person from Požega-Slavonia County.
Veritas also points out that the statement did not include the names of the identified, nor their nationality or any other affiliations, which is why the centre announced that it was about persons of Serb ethnic background.
The Administration on detainees and missing persons at the line ministry in Croatia conducted several similar identifications, but the names have not been published so far, the statement reads.
Veritas stated that it was about Miloš Rabljenović /73/ of Jovac near Petrinja, who was identified on April 1, 2016, Stojan Drašković /66/ of Selište near Glina, identified on December 15, 2017 and Milo Crevara /52 / from Crevarska Strana near Vrginmost, who was identified on April 23 last year.
“There was also Miladin Vuckovic /62/ of Lapovac near Slunj, identified on April 23, 2018, Petar Maljkovic /43/ of Majski Trtnik near Glina, identified on December 11, 2018 and Dragica Mraović /65/ of Čremušnica near Vrginmost, identified on December 11, 2018,” the statement reads.
Veritas also stated that Milenko Puhar /27/ of Donji Bogićevci near Okučani, who was identified on December 18, 2018, was among them
In the last 18 years, total of 1,600 Serb victims from Croatia and the former Republika Srpska Krajina were exhumed from the joint, mass and individual graves, including the exhumations organised by the families of victims, in the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, 1,203 of whom have been identified so far.
Unlike the Ministry of Croatian Veterans, according to whose data Croatia is still searching for 1,488 missing persons and mortal remains of 414 persons, which is 1,902 unresolved cases from the past war, there are still 1,761 missing Serbs on the Veritas missing persons list, who went missing between 1991 and 1995 in the territory of Croatia and the former Republika Srpska Krajina.
There are 1,273 civilians among the missing persons, 493 of whom are women, according to the statement.
Veritas also states that it has reliable data for another 163 registered grave sites containing unidentified remains of Serbs killed in the mentioned area and in the same period, waiting to be exhumed 24 years after the end of the war, exclusively due to the obstructions made by Croatia.