BAJAKOVO, Dec 30 (Hina) - Croatia on Monday received remains of six victims, who were preliminary identified in Yugoslavia, after their corpses, together with another 54 corpses of victims of the Serbian aggression on Croatia, were
dug up in a cemetery in Novi Sad this spring. The bodies were handed over to representatives of the Croatian office for missing and detained persons, at the Bajakovo border crossing.
BAJAKOVO, Dec 30 (Hina) - Croatia on Monday received remains of six
victims, who were preliminary identified in Yugoslavia, after
their corpses, together with another 54 corpses of victims of the
Serbian aggression on Croatia, were dug up in a cemetery in Novi Sad
this spring. The bodies were handed over to representatives of the
Croatian office for missing and detained persons, at the Bajakovo
border crossing. #L#
The head of the Yugoslav commission for missing persons, Maksim
Korac, said that besides these six bodies, his commission had to
date delivered remains of 25 preliminary identified victims,
exhumed in the Novi Sad cemetery.
The procedure of the DNA identification is under way for the
remaining bodies and they will also be handed over to Croatian
authorities, Korac added.
The head of the Croatian office, Lieutenant Ivan Grujic said
remains of 200 persons (believed to be Croatian citizens) had been
this year exhumed from areas of Sremska Mitrovica, Novi Sad and
Sabac, Yugoslavia.
It is believed that several hundred Croatian soldiers and
civilians, who died during the Homeland Defence War, were buried in
the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
The process of exhumation in the FRY will go on in 2003, Grujic said
adding that the corpses, which were delivered on Monday, were of
victims - soldiers and civilians - from Vukovar.
The government's office has a list of 1,309 persons who went missing
during the war.
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