ZAGREB, Oct 18 (Hina) - The Government will next week discuss a report on people who went missing during the Homeland War, Croatian Vice-Premier Ljerka Mintas-Hodak said at Monday's regular meeting between the Government Commission
for Missing and Detained Persons and the Alliance of Associations of the Families of Missing and Imprisoned Croatian Soldiers. A vice president of the association "Croatian Phoenix", Marija Macek, requested the Government to "finally state the truth about the soldiers who were imprisoned or went missing during 1991 and during operations "Flash" and "Storm", as well as a speedier procedure of discovering mass graves and exhuming and identifying the victims. The association also demands that the Government appoint new members of the Commission for Missing and Imprisoned Soldiers at its next session and that it present results on the identification process. Requested
ZAGREB, Oct 18 (Hina) - The Government will next week discuss a
report on people who went missing during the Homeland War, Croatian
Vice-Premier Ljerka Mintas-Hodak said at Monday's regular meeting
between the Government Commission for Missing and Detained Persons
and the Alliance of Associations of the Families of Missing and
Imprisoned Croatian Soldiers.
A vice president of the association "Croatian Phoenix", Marija
Macek, requested the Government to "finally state the truth about
the soldiers who were imprisoned or went missing during 1991 and
during operations "Flash" and "Storm", as well as a speedier
procedure of discovering mass graves and exhuming and identifying
the victims. The association also demands that the Government
appoint new members of the Commission for Missing and Imprisoned
Soldiers at its next session and that it present results on the
identification process.
Requested was also a more dignified burial of the exhumed and better
media coverage of those burials on Croatian Television.
Representatives of the association welcomed the recent opening of a
phone line for citizens to provide information on missing and
imprisoned soldiers.
Asked whether there are still living persons from the lists of
missing people compiled in 1991 and after the operations "Flash"
and "Storm", the president of the Commission, Lieutenant Ivan
Grujic, said the Commission "currently has no confirmed data on
that matter".
A total of 1,668 persons are still held missing, whereas 3,087 were
exhumed from 125 mass graves.
Vukovar-Srijem County has reported to the Commission a total of 790
persons who are held imprisoned or missing. So far, 1,804 persons
were exhumed and 1,348 of them were identified. Of the total number
of those exhumed, 468 had been held missing since 1991.
In Osijek-Baranja County, 154 persons are held missing and 168 were
exhumed, of whom 98 were identified.
In Sisak-Moslavina County, 338 persons are held missing, 574 were
exhumed, of whom 451 were identified. Of those 574 exhumed, 272 had
been held missing.
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