Some 17,000 still missing from wars

There are a total of 17,158 registered missing persons on the territory of the former Yugoslavia according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. According to the ICRC Belgrade office, there are 12,817 mission persons from Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2,374 from Croatia and 1,969 from Kosovo. Some 17,000 still missing from wars The statistics of organizations that deal with missing persons differ according to their criteria for keeping data. ICRC records information from the family members and the cases are closed once the remains of the victims are found and identified. ICRC had 34,278 missing persons on the territory of the former Yugoslavia after the conflicts of the 1990s. Initially there were 22,398 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, 5,885 from Croatia, and 5,995 from Kosovo. While is has information according to territories of conflict, the ICRC does not classify information according to ethnicity. The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) data shows there are still about 17,000 missing on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. According to the ICMP, Serbia is still looking for about one thousand people in Croatia which have been missing since 1995, while the number of missing Serbs in Kosovo is at some 500. There are about 13,500 mission persons in Bosnia-Herzegovina according to ICMP. After the conflicts of the 1990s, the ICMP had data claiming that 40,000 persons were missing, 30,000 of them in Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to the Documentation Informational Center Veritas, from 1990 to 1998 some 2,437 went missing from the Republic of Srpska Krajina region in Croatia, mostly Serbs, while the total number of killed and missing was 6,850. Veritas told Beta news agency that it is cooperating with all state commissions for the missing, families, ICMP and other organizations. According to the Croatian Missing Persons Commission, the number of missing Croats is 1,348, while 11,834 died in the war. President of the Kosovo Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Missing Persons, Simo Spasic, some 470 Serbs and Romas went mission in the province from 1998-1999. He said that the number is probably much higher, but thar many familes have given up on looking for their family members. Spasic said that his organization is trying to obtain more information through the Rasko-prizrensko Eparchy. According to the Humanitarian Law Center, since the arrival of KFOR on June 12, 1999, until 2000, some 932 non-Albanians went missing in Kosovo "under unlcear circumstances", while the fate of 593 of them is still unknown.

Some 17,000 still missing from wars

The statistics of organizations that deal with missing persons differ according to their criteria for keeping data.

ICRC records information from the family members and the cases are closed once the remains of the victims are found and identified.

ICRC had 34,278 missing persons on the territory of the former Yugoslavia after the conflicts of the 1990s. Initially there were 22,398 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, 5,885 from Croatia, and 5,995 from Kosovo.

While is has information according to territories of conflict, the ICRC does not classify information according to ethnicity.

The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) data shows there are still about 17,000 missing on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

According to the ICMP, Serbia is still looking for about one thousand people in Croatia which have been missing since 1995, while the number of missing Serbs in Kosovo is at some 500.

There are about 13,500 mission persons in Bosnia-Herzegovina according to ICMP.

After the conflicts of the 1990s, the ICMP had data claiming that 40,000 persons were missing, 30,000 of them in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

According to the Documentation Informational Center Veritas, from 1990 to 1998 some 2,437 went missing from the Republic of Srpska Krajina region in Croatia, mostly Serbs, while the total number of killed and missing was 6,850.

Veritas told Beta news agency that it is cooperating with all state commissions for the missing, families, ICMP and other organizations.

According to the Croatian Missing Persons Commission, the number of missing Croats is 1,348, while 11,834 died in the war.

President of the Kosovo Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Missing Persons, Simo Spasić, some 470 Serbs and Romas went mission in the province from 1998-1999.

He said that the number is probably much higher, but thar many familes have given up on looking for their family members.

Spasić said that his organization is trying to obtain more information through the Raško-prizrensko Eparchy.

According to the Humanitarian Law Center, since the arrival of KFOR on June 12, 1999, until 2000, some 932 non-Albanians went missing in Kosovo "under unlcear circumstances", while the fate of 593 of them is still unknown.