Emza Fazlic
Bosnia’s Long Search for Wartime Missing Persons in Croatia
According to the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, 102 Bosnian citizens, including Andrea Beganovic, were reported missing in neighbouring Croatia as a result of the war in the 1990s.
"Out of that number, 46 victims have been found, exhumed and identified so far, while the search for 56 people continues," said Missing Persons Institute spokesperson Emza Fazlic.
Skulls Found in Bosnian War Grave Exhumation
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.
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Passing Time Makes Search for Bosnia’s Wartime Missing Harder
However, associations of families of missing persons argue that the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the International Commission on Missing Persons and the Bosnian state prosecution should have found more of the remaining missing persons by now.
Police and security services 'concealing information'
33 Srebrenica Victims to Be Buried at Genocide Commemoration
On the 24th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide on July 11, the remains of 33 more people will be buried at a collective funeral at the memorial centre in the village of Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina's Missing Persons Institute told BIRN.
Bosnia Finds Suspected Wartime Mass Grave on Mount Igman
Bosnia's Missing Persons Institute told BIRN on Wednesday that it expected more than ten victims' remains to be found in the recently-discovered grave on Mount Igman, which will now be excavated.
"We have found bones and clothing parts," said Missing Persons Institute spokesperson Emza Fazlic.
Mass Funeral for Victims of Bosnia’s Koricanske Stijene Killings
The Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that a collective funeral will be held at Vedro Polje stadium in the village of Hambarine near Prijedor on July 20, and the victims' bodies will then be buried at locations chosen by their families.