OSIJEK, April 27 (Hina) - The families Croatian soldiers who had during the Homeland War gone missing or been detained, requested NATO's assistance. The current situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia aggravates the search for
300 Croatian soldiers and civilians buried all over Yugoslavia, as well as 17 Croatians imprisoned in Sremska Mitrovica. We, thus, forwarded a letter to the NATO Secretary-General, Javier Solana, pleading for assistance in the search for our loved ones, president of the association of families of missing and imprisoned Croatian soldiers and civilians, Stefica Krstic, said in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek on Tuesday. In the letter to Solana, we recalled that 1,800 people are still registered as missing in Croatia, after eight years of not knowing their whereabouts. We are looking for 166 people from the Osijek-Baranja County, mostly soldiers, while 110 people have been
OSIJEK, April 27 (Hina) - The families Croatian soldiers who had
during the Homeland War gone missing or been detained, requested
NATO's assistance.
The current situation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
aggravates the search for 300 Croatian soldiers and civilians
buried all over Yugoslavia, as well as 17 Croatians imprisoned in
Sremska Mitrovica. We, thus, forwarded a letter to the NATO
Secretary-General, Javier Solana, pleading for assistance in the
search for our loved ones, president of the association of families
of missing and imprisoned Croatian soldiers and civilians, Stefica
Krstic, said in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek on Tuesday.
In the letter to Solana, we recalled that 1,800 people are still
registered as missing in Croatia, after eight years of not knowing
their whereabouts.
We are looking for 166 people from the Osijek-Baranja County,
mostly soldiers, while 110 people have been exhumed so far, Krstic
said.
She added 56 bodies have been exhumed in the Croatian Danube region
this year, mostly civilians. The remains of 57 persons, who have not
been identified, have been buried in a joint grave at the central
cemetery in Osijek.
"Those who are lucky enough to not have to be present at the
exhumations cannot even imagine how difficult and painful it is for
families, as is the identification process," Krstic said.
She said nine victims of Serb aggression had been exhumed in Antin
in the Vukovar-Srijem County last week from a fish pond.
This was "too difficult to watch as the remains were in an appalling
state," she stressed.
We regret that our "parliament members are not designating enough
attention to the problem of searching for missing persons, although
it was precisely these victims that enabled them and all of us to
live in a free Croatia," Krstic stressed.
She described as good the association's cooperation with the
Government Commission for Missing and Imprisoned Persons.
Krstic requested Croatian citizens of Serb nationality to assist in
discovering locations of mass graves and individual graves,
because, as she put it, "they know where they are the best".
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