International Day of Disappeared marked

>>The International Committee of the Red Cross data shows that 15,655 people are still listed as missing from the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.>>

so, "only" some 15,000 plus persons are still officially missing, and what are we doing about it? where is the centralized strategy to find and identify the remains? to locate all of the mass graves?

it doesn't happen by magic and satellite images are not of much value so many years later. there has to be the will, the political will, to dig up the skeletons, and i don't just mean cheap, political stunts and further demagoguery.

about every month (a few years ago it was about every other week) some kind of mass grave is discovered or opened up in bosnia, almost always consisting of reburied (that's not the proper word) bodies or body parts of bosniak men, women and children -- and sometimes babies. it hardly makes the news anymore, you have to search for that news, but i follow it in gruesome detail when i can, in english. and we know the chief forensic anthropologist who leads these excavations and (attempted) identifications. she is a brilliant lady and one tough cookie but i can only imagine the toll that it takes on her and on the people of bosnia, esp bosniak.

there is really no reason to mention these anniversaries unless we accompany it with a stern call to have each country/govt involved work together to find the graves and remains, or at least make the effort.

my condolences to the families of all the victims; i could care less about the ethnicity or supposed religion.

robert0
frisco

Most of those 15,000 plus persons are Serbs, so Roberto I don't know why you're always have to assume they're all Bosniaks. Also I can guarantee you that some of the missing Bosniak are in reality living in the U.S, 10 years ago I remembered a Bosniak friend of mine laughing that his name was written in the missing list and he didn't bother telling any authority about it just to help keep those numbers high about the missing Bosniaks.

my condolences to the families of all the victims; i could care less about the ethnicity or supposed religion.

robert0
frisco
(roberto, 30 August 2009 19:10)

Really Roberto?

Your whole post consists of how every week more and more Bosnian Muslim remains are being found and to add to your dramatization you include babies as well.

Not once have you mentioned Serbian victims specifically. Sure you added it doesn't matter what nationality at the end but you made a whole song and dance about the Muslims only.

Roberto, sugar coat it any way you want in one short sentence but your posts speak only of bias towards the Muslims.

There are thousands of non Muslims missing and waiting to be discovered too.

>>The International Committee of the Red Cross data shows that 15,655 people are still listed as missing from the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.>>

so, "only" some 15,000 plus persons are still officially missing, and what are we doing about it? where is the centralized strategy to find and identify the remains? to locate all of the mass graves?

it doesn't happen by magic and satellite images are not of much value so many years later. there has to be the will, the political will, to dig up the skeletons, and i don't just mean cheap, political stunts and further demagoguery.

about every month (a few years ago it was about every other week) some kind of mass grave is discovered or opened up in bosnia, almost always consisting of reburied (that's not the proper word) bodies or body parts of bosniak men, women and children -- and sometimes babies. it hardly makes the news anymore, you have to search for that news, but i follow it in gruesome detail when i can, in english. and we know the chief forensic anthropologist who leads these excavations and (attempted) identifications. she is a brilliant lady and one tough cookie but i can only imagine the toll that it takes on her and on the people of bosnia, esp bosniak.

there is really no reason to mention these anniversaries unless we accompany it with a stern call to have each country/govt involved work together to find the graves and remains, or at least make the effort.

my condolences to the families of all the victims; i could care less about the ethnicity or supposed religion.

robert0
frisco

Most of those 15,000 plus persons are Serbs, so Roberto I don't know why you're always have to assume they're all Bosniaks. Also I can guarantee you that some of the missing Bosniak are in reality living in the U.S, 10 years ago I remembered a Bosniak friend of mine laughing that his name was written in the missing list and he didn't bother telling any authority about it just to help keep those numbers high about the missing Bosniaks.

my condolences to the families of all the victims; i could care less about the ethnicity or supposed religion.

robert0
frisco
(roberto, 30 August 2009 19:10)

Really Roberto?

Your whole post consists of how every week more and more Bosnian Muslim remains are being found and to add to your dramatization you include babies as well.

Not once have you mentioned Serbian victims specifically. Sure you added it doesn't matter what nationality at the end but you made a whole song and dance about the Muslims only.

Roberto, sugar coat it any way you want in one short sentence but your posts speak only of bias towards the Muslims.

There are thousands of non Muslims missing and waiting to be discovered too.