BAJAKOVO, Sept 27 (Hina) - On the border crossing in Bajakovo, the remains of ten initially identified persons exhumed recently near Sremska Mitrovica (Yugoslavia) were handed over to Croatia.
BAJAKOVO, Sept 27 (Hina) - On the border crossing in Bajakovo, the
remains of ten initially identified persons exhumed recently near
Sremska Mitrovica (Yugoslavia) were handed over to Croatia. #L#
According to the Yugolsav Commission for Missing Persons, Maksim
Korac, in the past two weeks the remains of 111 people had been
exhumed in the region under the jurisdiction of the Sremska
Mitrovica District Court, including the towns of Ruma and Indjia.
Of that number, ten people were preliminarily identified for
Croatia and 21 for Bosnia, Korac said.
He added that the Yugoslav side was interested in starting
exhumations around Slavonski Brod (Croatia) to find the remains of
twenty people apparently buried in that region who were killed in
Bosanska Posavina (Bosnia).
Korac said that the bodies of the ten identified persons exhumed in
the Mitrovica area and handed over to Croatia on Friday, had washed
up on the Yugoslav bank of Sava River in 1991.
The president of the Croatian government's Office for Detained and
Missing Persons, Ivan Grujic, said that the bodies were those of
people who had been abducted from Croatia and killed during
transportation to Yugoslavia.
Grujic reminded that the exhumation of people from Croatia being
sought in Yugoslavia had begun in May this year in the Novi Sad
cemetery. Once exhumations are completed in the Mitrovica region,
they will continue in Sabac, Grujic said.
It is assumed that the remains of about 300 people being searched
for by the government's commission are located in Yugoslavia.
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