BELGRADE, August 29 /SRNA/ – Veritas Centre reports that on its list of the missing in Croatia and BiH in the period 1991-1008 there are 1,786 Serbs, including 1,282 civilians, among them 495 women.
A press release issued on the occasion of the Internal Day of the Disappeared /Aug 30/ reads that according to the current Veritas’ list, there are 1,731 missing Serbs from Croatia and 55 from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Veritas points out that the list is not final, explained by the fact that ten more persons were added in the past year.
The centre underlines that if earthly remains were exhumed from the registered graves, the number of the missing on the Veritas list would drop by one third, together with those previously exhumed and identified.
The press release reads that, starting from 2001, in Croatia, including the former Republic of Serbian Krajina, earthly remains of 1,334 persons were exhumed from joint and individual graves, with 406 not identified yet.
“Veritas currently has a record of another 256 registered graves /106 by Croatian sources/ with earthly remains of Serbs in Croatia from the 1990s war, which may be exhumed immediately, with a little good will from the Croatian side, just like this could have been done in the past years,” reads the press release.
This is why Veritas calls on the missing persons’ families to check with the institutions and organisations dealing with the problem if their relatives are registered in official lists of the missing, that is, whether they have given blood samples, and if they have, whether the samples are valid for identification by the DNA method.
“Thee families have the right to find out the truth about the fate of their loved ones, the society has a legal and moral obligation to help them in their search. This is possible only with an active cooperation of the families with the competent organisations and institutions,” said Veritas.
The families are frustrated by the fact that there still are several lists of the missing and the numbers on them fluctuate depending on the criteria used to putting a person on the list, as well as on the views by political elites, the centre reports.
Veritas says that, thanks to meetings between the Serbian and Croatian presidents and their joint stance that the matter deserves more attention, the issue of missing persons in Croatia and the former RSK was “this year discussed extensively yet very little was completed” and that “no harmonised list of the missing has been issued yet.”
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