ZAGREB, Jan 15 (Hina) - Families of detained and missing Croatian soldiers and civilians on Monday held a brief meeting with ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, asking her to get relevant data from Yugoslav authorities about sites
of graves of Croatian victims. The 15-minute meeting with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was held in a break of her talks with Croatian top officials. After the meeting with del Ponte, Josip Jugec, the head of the federation of societies of families of missing and imprisoned Croatians, told reporters that they were aware that those who went missing in 1991 were certainly dead, but "we now insist that their graves are located so that (our dead) can be exhumed and have dignified funerals." Mrs. Marija Macek, a mother of a missing soldier, said "1,567 of them do not have their own graves yet and we have nowhe
ZAGREB, Jan 15 (Hina) - Families of detained and missing Croatian
soldiers and civilians on Monday held a brief meeting with ICTY
Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, asking her to get relevant data
from Yugoslav authorities about sites of graves of Croatian
victims.
The 15-minute meeting with the chief prosecutor of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),
was held in a break of her talks with Croatian top officials.
After the meeting with del Ponte, Josip Jugec, the head of the
federation of societies of families of missing and imprisoned
Croatians, told reporters that they were aware that those who went
missing in 1991 were certainly dead, but "we now insist that their
graves are located so that (our dead) can be exhumed and have
dignified funerals."
Mrs. Marija Macek, a mother of a missing soldier, said "1,567 of
them do not have their own graves yet and we have nowhere to light a
candle."
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