Croatia: Remains of 16 Serb victims identified

BELGRADE Remains of 16 Serb victims killed during the civil war in Croatia from 1991 until 1995, Veritas Documentation and Information Center has released. The victims were identified by the Zagreb Medical Faculty’s Institute for Forensic Medicine and Criminology. Croatia: Remains of 16 Serb victims identified The Serb victims were exhumed over the past 11 years in the territory of Lika, Dalmatia, Kordun, Banija, western and eastern Slavonija. The analysis was completed by means of DNA comparison on Friday, in the presence of the victims' families. The authorities have managed to identify 751 Serb victims out of 1,140 exhumed remains from joint, mass and individual graves in the territory of Croatia and former Republic of Serb Krajina. The Veritas list includes 1,969 Serbs who went missing during the conflicts in Croatia, of whom 1,344 are civilians, 522 of them women. There are around 500 registered graves containing remains of Serb victims in Croatia, and 17 years since the end of conflicts they are still waiting for exhumation solely because of obstructions by the Croatian side, Veritas stated in the release. Tanjug

Croatia: Remains of 16 Serb victims identified

The Serb victims were exhumed over the past 11 years in the territory of Lika, Dalmatia, Kordun, Banija, western and eastern Slavonija.

The analysis was completed by means of DNA comparison on Friday, in the presence of the victims' families.

The authorities have managed to identify 751 Serb victims out of 1,140 exhumed remains from joint, mass and individual graves in the territory of Croatia and former Republic of Serb Krajina.

The Veritas list includes 1,969 Serbs who went missing during the conflicts in Croatia, of whom 1,344 are civilians, 522 of them women.

There are around 500 registered graves containing remains of Serb victims in Croatia, and 17 years since the end of conflicts they are still waiting for exhumation solely because of obstructions by the Croatian side, Veritas stated in the release.