Associations want justice for missing persons

Northern Kosovska Mitrovica hosted a round table Saturday on the rights of the missing and their families.

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Sunday, 16.12.2007.

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Northern Kosovska Mitrovica hosted a round table Saturday on the rights of the missing and their families. The participants adopted conclusions at the end of the gathering, aimed at facilitating the process of solving the sore regional problem. Associations want justice for missing persons According to data released recently, as many as 17,500 people are still listed as missing from a series of armed conflict in the territory of former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. The Serbian Government Missing Persons Commission lists 554 names of Serbs, including those of 432 persons kidnapped in Kosovo following the arrival of KFOR on June 10, 1999. The Serb associations representing those missing and the families they left behind asked that the problem not be politicized, and urged continuing of the process of finding out about the fate of the missing persons regardless of the outcome of the Kosovo status talks. The states in the region must sign an agreement to assist the process of finding those who have disappeared, exhuming and identifying the victims, and advocate equal approach to all, the participants said. They also asked the Serbian government to take steps to accelerate the DNA analysis of the victims. Serbia is also called upon to adopt a law on the missing persons, provide a special status to the associations involved in this issue, and finance their work through ministries. Those gathered in Kosovska Mitrovica also demanded that authorities in Serbia, the Republic of Srpska and Croatia appropriately mark the suffering of Serbs, and respect the conclusions of the 10th Regional Conference on the Missing Persons. The conclusions from the gathering will be forwarded to the EU and UN Security Council. One of the questions the associations are asking is, can a country that does not work on solving the issue of the missing become an EU member.

Associations want justice for missing persons

According to data released recently, as many as 17,500 people are still listed as missing from a series of armed conflict in the territory of former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

The Serbian Government Missing Persons Commission lists 554 names of Serbs, including those of 432 persons kidnapped in Kosovo following the arrival of KFOR on June 10, 1999.

The Serb associations representing those missing and the families they left behind asked that the problem not be politicized, and urged continuing of the process of finding out about the fate of the missing persons regardless of the outcome of the Kosovo status talks.

The states in the region must sign an agreement to assist the process of finding those who have disappeared, exhuming and identifying the victims, and advocate equal approach to all, the participants said.

They also asked the Serbian government to take steps to accelerate the DNA analysis of the victims.

Serbia is also called upon to adopt a law on the missing persons, provide a special status to the associations involved in this issue, and finance their work through ministries.

Those gathered in Kosovska Mitrovica also demanded that authorities in Serbia, the Republic of Srpska and Croatia appropriately mark the suffering of Serbs, and respect the conclusions of the 10th Regional Conference on the Missing Persons.

The conclusions from the gathering will be forwarded to the EU and UN Security Council.

One of the questions the associations are asking is, can a country that does not work on solving the issue of the missing become an EU member.

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