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Netherlands donates USD 4.5 mln for tracing missing persons

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SARAJEVO, May 22 (Hina) - The Dutch government has donated US$ 4.5 million to the Sarajevo-based International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) so that it can continue with the identification of remains found in mass graves.

A donation contract was signed in Sarajevo on Tuesday by the Dutch ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sweder van Voorst, and ICMP director Kathryne Bomberger.

The Netherlands' outstanding commitment to the dealing with the issue of missing persons in the Western Balkans has enabled the ICMP to help the governments in the region trace more than 27,000 missing persons, said Bomberger.

She recalled that 40,000 persons were reported as gone missing in the 1990s wars in the region's countries.

Van Voorst said his government was especially interested in helping with the identification of those killed in Srebrenica.

The ICMP estimates that more than 8,100 people went missing in that eastern Bosnian town after the enclave fell into Bosnian Serb hands in 1995. Family members have directly reported to the ICMP the disappearance of 7,733 persons.

About 7,000 DNA profiles have been isolated from the remains found in Srebrenica and 6,790 persons have been been identified thanks to DNA and other methods.

DNA analysis has helped to identify 16,644 persons gone missing during the conflicts in the Western Balkans, including 13,904 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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