International Day of Disappeared marked

The International Day of the Disappeared, August 30, will be marked in Serbia by gatherings and protests, said reprots. The events will take place in Belgrade and in the Serb enclave of Gracanica in Kosovo. International Day of Disappeared marked Those participating are expected to urge regional governments to work more efficiently in order to resolve the cases of all victims of enforced disappearance and bring to justice those accountable for them. The central gathering will be held in Belgrade at noon, where the Coordination of Serbian associations of families of missing persons will address a letter to the former Yugoslav countries. As it was announced, the gathering will drew attention to the "relativization and covering-up of trafficking in human organs of the kidnapped and missing Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and Albania", and representative of the Regional Coordination of Associations of Families of Missing Persons Ema Cekic will also address those gathered. Prior to that, representatives of the Serbian associations will at a press conference drew attention to the fact that the fate of almost 14,000 people is still unresolved even 16 years after the end of conflicts in the territory of former Yugoslavia. They will call for a better exchange of information regarding new graves, urgent opening and exhumation of the known individual and mass graves and faster identification of 5,000 corpses. As in the previous years, a protest will be staged in Gracanica against contined discrimination of Serb victims in search for the missing, while in the SPC Monastery of Gracanica a commemoration service will be held. Representatives of the associations of families of missing persons will demand an equally extensive search for all the missing, coordinator of the Serb associations in the province Milorad Trifunovic told Tanjug. Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross regional office Dragana Kojic told Tanjug that during the last year the fate of only 970 missing persons has been resolved in the Western Balkans. She noted that the authorities are looking for 13,714 people - 9,548 in Bosnia, 2,355 in Croatia, as well as 1,811 in Kosovo and Metohija. According to data of the Serbian government commission on missing persons, out of the total number, 4,000 of the disappeared are Serbs. (Beta)

International Day of Disappeared marked

Those participating are expected to urge regional governments to work more efficiently in order to resolve the cases of all victims of enforced disappearance and bring to justice those accountable for them.

The central gathering will be held in Belgrade at noon, where the Coordination of Serbian associations of families of missing persons will address a letter to the former Yugoslav countries.

As it was announced, the gathering will drew attention to the "relativization and covering-up of trafficking in human organs of the kidnapped and missing Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and Albania", and representative of the Regional Coordination of Associations of Families of Missing Persons Ema Čekić will also address those gathered.

Prior to that, representatives of the Serbian associations will at a press conference drew attention to the fact that the fate of almost 14,000 people is still unresolved even 16 years after the end of conflicts in the territory of former Yugoslavia.

They will call for a better exchange of information regarding new graves, urgent opening and exhumation of the known individual and mass graves and faster identification of 5,000 corpses.

As in the previous years, a protest will be staged in Gračanica against contined discrimination of Serb victims in search for the missing, while in the SPC Monastery of Gračanica a commemoration service will be held.

Representatives of the associations of families of missing persons will demand an equally extensive search for all the missing, coordinator of the Serb associations in the province Milorad Trifunović told Tanjug.

Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross regional office Dragana Kojić told Tanjug that during the last year the fate of only 970 missing persons has been resolved in the Western Balkans.

She noted that the authorities are looking for 13,714 people - 9,548 in Bosnia, 2,355 in Croatia, as well as 1,811 in Kosovo and Metohija.

According to data of the Serbian government commission on missing persons, out of the total number, 4,000 of the disappeared are Serbs.