Missing Persons Institute

Holding sheets with the names of their loved ones and banners with their pictures, every month for the last 25 years, no matter the weather, these women have sent clear messages. 

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BIRN's reporter followed the participants all the way along the route of this year's Peace March, and posted regular updates, photos, videos and other content on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as the march progressed.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina's Missing Persons Institute said that 50 genocide victims will be laid to rest at a collective funeral at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre on July 11, the day of the anniversary commemoration of the mass killings in 1995.

Saha Bumbulovic said that her father Adil Selimovic, who was killed on July 13, 1995 at the age of 59, will be among those who will be buried.

A memorial event to remember those who went missing during the 1992-95 Bosnian war and to mark the Day of the Disappeared was held in the town of Mostar on Monday by the Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina and war victims' associations from all over the country.

Mortal remains of one person have been exhumed in Potocari, near Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia. The Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina assumes the remains belong to a Bosniak woman who was brought to the location and buried there in 1995.

At the exhumation were diggers and personnel from the Missing Persons Institute and the prosecution, as well as State Investigation and Protection Agency investigators and labourers who were digging up the hidden grave. They announced as Vranovic and BIRN's reporter arrived that they had just found a fourth skull.

Twenty-eight years since they went missing during the Bosnian war, Ferida Nisic is still searching for the remains of her brother, Mujo Music, and 10 other relatives.

"The search is your life," said Nisic, secretary of the municipality missing persons association in Hadzici, just west of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo.

Graves of Srebrenica victims. Archive photo: Wikimedia Commons/Michael Buker.

It said that the remains are believed to be those of victims of the massacres of some 8,000 Bosniak man and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995, which international courts have classified as genocide.

The Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina told BIRN on Monday that investigators carrying out an exhumation of a suspected war grave have found two skulls that are believed to belong to Bosniaks from the village of Rizvanovici in the Prijedor area.

The Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina said on Friday that the mass grave in Gradina, which was discovered two days ago, is now being exhumed.