BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3167 HINA ZAGREB, FEBRUARY 4

HR-PARLIAMENT BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3167 HINA ZAGREB, FEBRUARY 4 LOWER HOUSE DISCUSSES REPORT ON DETAINED AND MISSINGZAGREB, Feb 4 (Hina) - Detained and missing Croatian soldiers and the search for the truth about their fate is one of the most difficult humanitarian problems the Croatian Government is faced with. The destiny of 1,782 is still unknown, said the Minister of Croatian Homeland War Soldiers, Juraj Njavro, at a session of the Sabor's House of Representatives on Thursday. The Lower House is discussing a report on the work of the Government Commission for Imprisoned and Missing Persons between end September 1997 and the beginning of December 1998. Since the beginning of the Commission's work, 109 mass graves and a large number of individual burial sites have been discovered. Between the end of September 1997 and the end of last year, more than 1,447 bodies were exhumed, of which more than 70 per cent were identified. This is a fairly high percentage and an acknowl