ZAGREB, 10 Dec (Hina) - The centre for the protection of rights of imprisoned and missing Croatian citizens and their families, 'Apel', on Tuesday sent an appeal to all ambassadors in Croatia, on the occasion of the Human Rights Day.
'Apel' recalled in their appeal that '2,513 families in Croatia are still waiting for the truth about their dearest ones'. Since September 13, 1995, the bodies of 748 persons had been exhumed, 200 of them from the Ovcara mass grave near Vukovar, the appeal said.
ZAGREB, 10 Dec (Hina) - The centre for the protection of rights of
imprisoned and missing Croatian citizens and their families,
'Apel', on Tuesday sent an appeal to all ambassadors in Croatia, on
the occasion of the Human Rights Day. 'Apel' recalled in their
appeal that '2,513 families in Croatia are still waiting for the
truth about their dearest ones'. Since September 13, 1995, the
bodies of 748 persons had been exhumed, 200 of them from the Ovcara
mass grave near Vukovar, the appeal said. #L#
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had
deluded the families of missing and imprisoned Croatian citizens
and soldiers for years, the appeal said.
ICRC stated that between 1991 and 1996 it had visited 54,040
imprisoned persons, claiming that only 21,430 had been released,
the appeal said.
'The others are not important or interesting - it is clear
from ICRC statistics that prison camps and places of detention were
visited only once', the appeal said.
Killed persons are put under the category 'missing', the
appeal said, adding that 'Apel' believed that 'not all missing had
been killed and that the dead should be buried properly'.
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