ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Croatian authorities are still searching for 1,235 persons who went missing or were forcible detained during the Homeland Defence War, according to a report of the government's Office for Detained and Missing
Persons.
ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Croatian authorities are still searching for
1,235 persons who went missing or were forcible detained during the
Homeland Defence War, according to a report of the government's Office
for Detained and Missing Persons.#L#
The report on the Office's activities from the start of 2000 to 1
December 2003 was considered and accepted by the Croatian government
at a closed-door session on Friday.
According to the report, the initial list of the missing and detained
persons contained the names of 3,052 people.
Exhumations of mass graves started in 1995, and since then 3,425
victims of the aggression against Croatia have been found in 137 mass
and numerous individual graves. Adding the number of exhumed bodies
of persons who were killed during the Storm operation, the number of
exhumed victims of the war totals 3,924. About 83 percent of corpses
have so far been identified.
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