MOSTAR WASTE DISPOSAL SITE HIDES BODIES OF MISSING RESIDENTS

MOSTAR, Jan 22 (Hina) - The president of the Bosnian State Commission for Missing Persons, Amor Masovic, confirmed in a phone interview with Hina on Tuesday there were "indications that the Vihovici waste disposal site in West Mostar is hiding the bodies of a number of Bosniaks killed in Mostar or while in detention at the Heliodrom location (outside Mostar) during the Croat-Muslim conflicts of 1993." A total of 1,200 Bosniaks are considered to have gone missing during the Croat-Muslim conflicts on the entire territory of Bosnia- Herzegovina. The Mostar branch of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia- Herzegovina said in a statement today the Vihovici waste disposal site was hiding the bodies of numerous missing Mostar residents. Sanja Mulac, head of the Commission for Missing Persons of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Mostar, said that "there are indications that the Vihovici waste disposal site is hiding a mass grave containing mostly the bodies of killed Bosniaks, as well as Croats and Serbs." (hina) sb rml