BELGRADE, June 10 (Hina) - The second phase of the exhumation of persons who went missing in the war in Croatia, started at the Novi Sad cemetery, Yugoslavia, on Monday.
BELGRADE, June 10 (Hina) - The second phase of the exhumation of
persons who went missing in the war in Croatia, started at the Novi
Sad cemetery, Yugoslavia, on Monday. #L#
In the first phase of the exhumation, which took place in March, the
remains of 12 persons were exhumed and handed over to Croatia, after
it had previously been established that those persons were
registered as missing in Croatia.
An investigating judge at the Novi Sad District Court, Miroslav
Alimpic, said at a press conference held at the cemetery that 48
bodies would be exhumed by Friday. The remains of 13 persons will be
handed over to Croatia, while the others will undergo DNA analysis
which will establish their identity, the judge said.
According to the judge, Croatia is interested in 60 of 87 persons
buried at the Novi Sad cemetery. Unlike the exhumation conducted in
March, this exhumation is not conducted in the presence of
investigators of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia.
After the exhumations in Novi Sad, the Croatian Commission for
Missing and Detained Persons will demand that exhumations be
conducted at cemeteries in Sremska Mitrovica and Belgrade.
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