SARAJEVO, Dec 21 (Hina) - Eighty-three percent of some 20,000 +persons filed as missing during the Bosnian war are Bosniaks +(Bosnian Moslems), the head of a Bosniak commission tracing missing +persons, Amor Masovic, said on Monday.+
The search for the missing might take up to 50 years, he said in an +interview to "Oslobodjenje", a Sarajevo daily paper.+ Masovic confirmed the official list of the missing, compiled by the +International Red Cross, contains the names of 20,058 persons.+ "Among them are 16,654 Bosniaks, 687 Croats, 2,495 Bosnian Serbs, +and 258 missing from other national groups," Masovic said.+ The most numerous among missing Bosnian Moslems are persons whose +fate has remained unknown since the fall of Srebrenica, a former +safety zone in eastern Bosnia, in the summer of 1995. Unofficial +estimates number these missing at close to 10,000.+ According to Masovic, exp
SARAJEVO, Dec 21 (Hina) - Eighty-three percent of some 20,000
persons filed as missing during the Bosnian war are Bosniaks
(Bosnian Moslems), the head of a Bosniak commission tracing missing
persons, Amor Masovic, said on Monday.
The search for the missing might take up to 50 years, he said in an
interview to "Oslobodjenje", a Sarajevo daily paper.
Masovic confirmed the official list of the missing, compiled by the
International Red Cross, contains the names of 20,058 persons.
"Among them are 16,654 Bosniaks, 687 Croats, 2,495 Bosnian Serbs,
and 258 missing from other national groups," Masovic said.
The most numerous among missing Bosnian Moslems are persons whose
fate has remained unknown since the fall of Srebrenica, a former
safety zone in eastern Bosnia, in the summer of 1995. Unofficial
estimates number these missing at close to 10,000.
According to Masovic, expert teams have to date exhumed the remains
of some 3,000 Srebrenica victims. He added the identification
process was very difficult.
Masovic stressed the tracing of the missing must not be
discontinued "at any price or under any pressure."
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