VUKOVAR VUKOVAR, March 16 (Hina) - "Vas lik, nas put" (Your Image, Our Path), a book published by an association of families of missing Croatian Serbs, was presented in the eastern-most town of Vukovar on Thursday. According to data
in the book, 2,641 Croatian citizens of Serb nationality went missing during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. Even though the data, whose source is VERITAS, a documentary-information centre from Vukovar, is not reliable, the publication of the book is a stimulus for intensifying the search for the missing, Serb officials said at the presentation of the book. According to VERITAS data, of the total number of missing Croatian Serbs 261 disappeared during "Flash" and 1,906 during "Storm", police and military operations through which Croatian forces in 1995 liberated all Croatian areas under Serb occupation, with the exception of the Danube River Region in eastern Croatia which was u
VUKOVAR, March 16 (Hina) - "Vas lik, nas put" (Your Image, Our
Path), a book published by an association of families of missing
Croatian Serbs, was presented in the eastern-most town of Vukovar
on Thursday.
According to data in the book, 2,641 Croatian citizens of Serb
nationality went missing during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia.
Even though the data, whose source is VERITAS, a documentary-
information centre from Vukovar, is not reliable, the publication
of the book is a stimulus for intensifying the search for the
missing, Serb officials said at the presentation of the book.
According to VERITAS data, of the total number of missing Croatian
Serbs 261 disappeared during "Flash" and 1,906 during "Storm",
police and military operations through which Croatian forces in
1995 liberated all Croatian areas under Serb occupation, with the
exception of the Danube River Region in eastern Croatia which was
under United Nations administration.
"The government's Commission for Detained and Missing Persons,
which is headed by Lt. Col. Ivan Grujic and which considers the
figure of 2,641 missing Serbs incorrect, confirmed that a certain
number from the list of missing Serbs was abroad," said Vojislav
Stanimirovic, the president of the Serb Independent Democratic
Party.
He added co-operation with the commission was the only right way to
find out the truth about the exact number of missing Croatian
Serbs.
According to Ruzica Spasic, the president of the association of
families of missing Croatian Serbs, even though the book brings
data on only 186 missing persons, it is a "strong call to intensify
efforts to shed light on the fate of every missing Serb in
Croatia."
The missing Serbs issue has thus far been a "taboo subject" for a
variety of reasons, said Milos Vojnovic, the president of the Joint
Council of eastern Croatia's mostly Serb-populated
municipalities.
"This book is a pioneering step towards changing the situation," he
said.
The Yugoslav consul in Vukovar, Aleksandar Besarabic, said he was
glad the book was published, adding he had always been annoyed by
the fact that the Croatian media talked exclusively about the
exhumations of killed Croats.
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