More than 10,000 people are still listed as missing in the wars in the former Yugoslavia, an organization of the families of missing persons said on Tuesday.
A total of 10,281 people are still listed as missing and their fate is unknown, including a little more than 3,600 Serbs, the Coordination of Serb Associations of Families of the missing and killed in the former Yugoslavia said.
A statement issued by the organization prior to International Missing Persons day (August 30) said that the International Committee of the Red Cross is still searching for 6,606 people in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2,027 people in Croatia and 1,648 people in Kosovo.
The organization expressed dissatisfaction with the “delay in the process of finding and identifying missing persons”. “We find it impermissible that there are mass graves with the remains of more than 70 Serbs in Croatia, 23 years after the end of the war, which have not been exhumed,”the statement said, adding that the situation in Kosovo is even worse because “no one is being tried for war crimes against Serbs and there are no exhumations or victim identification”. “The issue of truth and justice for Serb victims fares no better in the Bosnia-Herzegovina Federation,” the Coordination said.
According to the organization, Serbia has not erected a memorial to the victims of the war.
