PHOTOS OF VICTIMS' REMAINS DISPLAYED IN SPLIT

SPLIT, Jan 28 (Hina) - An exhibition of photographs of found personal items, clothes, and remains of 272 victims exhumed from mass graves in eastern Croatia was staged in the southern Croatian seaport of Split on Thursday. The exhibition, staged by the Croatian government's Commission for Detained and Missing Persons, is an attempt to help displaced persons accommodated in the Split area identify the killed members of their families. The personal belongings and photographs a few days ago helped victims' family members in Vukovar, eastern Croatia, positively identify 13 victims and preliminarily six. The head of the government's commission, Ivan Grujic, told reporters on Thursday that some 18,000 persons were considered missing in Croatia in late 1991 and early 1992. The figure today is 1,795. Some 7,000 persons have been liberated from Yugoslav camps through negotiations and exchanges, any many have returned from other countries or fled from formerly occupied Croatian areas. The remains of 2,864 persons have been exhumed from 108 mass graves in liberated areas formerly under Serbian occupation. Grujic said 83 percent had been identified. Exhumations were continuing, he added. The Split exhibition will close on February 4. The Croatian Red Cross staff is present to gather data from the victims' family members. After Split, the exhibition will travel to the northern seaport of Pula, and then Zagreb. (hina) ha jn