BELGRADE -- The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that families of over 11,800 missing persons in the former Yugoslavia wars are still waiting for answers.
Fate of nearly 12,000 missing in Balkans still unknown
BELGRADE -- The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that families of over 11,800 missing persons in the former Yugoslavia wars are still waiting for answers.
Source: Tanjug
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Representatives of the Coordination of Serb Associations of Families of Missing Persons from the Territory of Former Yugoslavia Friday called for opening all archives, launching serious and efficient investigations and prosecuting the organizers and perpetrators of war crimes.
At a press conference held on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, August 30, they demanded that everything concerning the allegations about trafficking in organs taken from over 350 Serbs kidnapped and missing in Kosovo during the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict be effectively investigated.
President of the Serbian government's Commission for Missing Persons Veljko Odalović said that Amnesty International “has finally opened its heart” and forwarded to the UN Security Council a document containing records of testimonies by families of Serb victims in Kosovo.
He is hopeful that now, 18 years after the end of all conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, a joint register of all the missing persons in the region will finally be compiled.
President of the Coordination of Serb Associations of Families of Missing Persons from the Territory of Former Yugoslavia Nataša Šćepanović said that every year, there are fewer and fewer new identifications and warned that at such a pace of developments, the process could take 30 years to complete.
“We lack information about mass and individual graves, exhumations are slow, identifications take a lot of time to commence, and some of them are inaccurate,” Šćepanović said, adding that only 20 missing persons were identified over the past year.
According to Šćepanović, the reason is lack of political will among the governments in the region, violation of agreements that have been signed and unwillingness to prosecute those responsible who hold positions of considerable political influence.
According to the Serbian government's Commission for Missing Persons, we are still waiting for answers about the fate of about 3,500 missing Serbs. A total of 1,938 of them disappeared in Croatia, more than of them 530 in Kosovo and the rest went missing in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Chairman of the Board of the Coordination of Serb Associations of Families of Missing Persons from the Territory of Former Yugoslavia Dragan Pjevac stated that a total of 306 human remains are waiting to be identified in Croatia.
He pointed out about 270 known graves have not yet been excavated.
To commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared, a delegation of the Coordination of Serb Associations laid a wreath at a memorial erected in the Tasmajdan park in downtown Belgrade in remembrance of all Serbs killed during the 1991-95 former Yugoslavia wars.
It would be unheard of, if the USA, Canada, Sweden, France, etc; decided to kill and commit genocide against their own population that shared supposedly the same genetic make-up. Would America go to war and head to the south to kill their Southern Baptists brothers, would they head to the Northwest and kill their Norwegian American generations of Lutherans, or would American flock to the Northeast and send their armored vehicles to kill Italian Americans or Irish American Catholics. I doubt it. Yet, I have to give the Serbs some credit here; they are equal opportunist. More importantly, the Serbs did not discriminate against their Slavic genetic equals; the Serbs killed pillaged the Croat town of Vukovar, exterminated Bosnian Serbs of the Muslim faith in Srebenica. One can only imagine the horrors that these crazed lunatics Serbs brainwashed by their nationalist leaders inflicted on the natural and indigenous Albanian population. And then the audacity being raised among-st that small % of Serbian population missing is pathetic whenever the issue of missing people is raised. More audacious; is the fact some of these Serbs that fled Kosovo because of guilt of having done what they did have some illusionary ideas of ever returning.
(illyrianLover, 2 September 2013 20:46)
"Also the U.S. back Tudjman who wrote a book in the early 1970's about how genocide was a natural and good thing. "
(ida, 2 September 2013 06:03)
Probably it was written in Serbo-Croatian, so that Mladic, Karadzic, Milosevic and all the other 'heroes' and 'defenders' could read and learn from it?
(Questioner, 2 September 2013 20:12)
You are wrong Mendo. The west was covertly supporting separatists to gradually break Yugoslavia into little ethnically pure or divided and occupied statelets. The U.S. and German were making moves to that effect YEARS before the war started.
And interesting how they supported Alija Izetbegovic who'd long dreamed of an Islamic state and was even jailed in the early 1980's with his group for seeking help of Islamic groups, including terrorist groups, for that end.
Also the U.S. back Tudjman who wrote a book in the early 1970's about how genocide was a natural and good thing.
The CIA obviously was reading these books and knew the authors would be good for their recipe to break up Yugoslavia.
(ida, 2 September 2013 06:03)
So, two thirds are non serbians... This shows who killed more and hid their crimes...
Well what else would you expect from someone like Karadzic who was hiding for years with a pony tail... Brave serb heroes hiding in pony tails because of the crimes they did and hid.
(Montenegrin, 1 September 2013 19:19)
I'm not expecting better from a nationalists like you. Be careful what you wish others! U ever heard of karma? B92 is English and anyone can right here. As for Assad I don't give a damn what happens to him or if he stays in power or not. Simply Assad not my problem. I think people like you brought Serbia to where it is today. Cheers
(Mendo, 31 August 2013 18:16)
Very sad that those people are missing, but was it not for EU and USA to go berserk in ex-Yugo and encourage start of wars we would not have all those people killed. Sad really.
(Sreten, 31 August 2013 18:03)
There are thousands of Albanian bodies in UN basements in Prishtina which the UN are still trying to identify.
(Haitan, 30 August 2013 18:02)
Do they arrive for work at 9 in the morning and leave around 4 in the afternoon? I hope they get a good salary for playing the part of dead bodies for CNN cameras. Because if they actually are dead being in a basement all that time, I think the stench would be overbearing.
(Dominican, 31 August 2013 16:44)
A comment coming from a Serbian nationalist it has no value for me Cccchero, people who wish death upon others like you do has no valu and not worth commenting back but this time i had too. What's wrong with ordinary Serbian i count all the people the same no matter coulor/race/religion so i come here to speak the truth not your "truth". As for Assad I don't really care what they do to him or if he stays in power for eternity, it's not my problem. I still blame the Serbs for all the wars in Ballkan cos i was there and I know first hand, you can spin it the way it suits you but the truth is on our side.
(Mendo, 31 August 2013 15:19)
Mendo, I'm sad they didn't get you. Really. Would you please stop coming to a Serbian website? Why come here? Do you want to be Serbian that bad that you have nothing better to do than hang out at a Serbian website spewing garbage? Your lies are about as believable now as they were back then. Shouldn't you be bombing Syria now because of Assad's "chemical attack" on his own people? You know... the DAY that the UN inspectors were to arrive? and besides the fact that his forces were winning the battle against the "rebels". I'm not saying the NWO set him up or anything.... no not at all. Just like they didn't use Serbia as a scapegoat for the wars of the 1990's in the Balkans. Open your eyes dude... the writing is on the wall for anyone to see. You just have to use COMMON SENSE. Think about it... who had ANYTHING to gain out of all this? and where did they end up?
(cccchero, 30 August 2013 22:09)
Very sad that those people are missing, but was it not for Serbia to go berserk in ex-Yugo we would not have all those people killed. Sad really.
(Mendo, 30 August 2013 19:02)
There are thousands of Albanian bodies in UN basements in Prishtina which the UN are still trying to identify. I hope everyone in the Balkans can find out the fate of their loved ones so that the friends and families can move on. The problem is that mass graves keep getting discovered. But one day hopefully we can all move on from the dark days of the 1990s.
(Haitan, 30 August 2013 18:02)
Very sad that those people are missing, but was it not for Serbia to go berserk in ex-Yugo we would not have all those people killed. Sad really.
(Mendo, 30 August 2013 19:02)
There are thousands of Albanian bodies in UN basements in Prishtina which the UN are still trying to identify. I hope everyone in the Balkans can find out the fate of their loved ones so that the friends and families can move on. The problem is that mass graves keep getting discovered. But one day hopefully we can all move on from the dark days of the 1990s.
(Haitan, 30 August 2013 18:02)
Mendo, I'm sad they didn't get you. Really. Would you please stop coming to a Serbian website? Why come here? Do you want to be Serbian that bad that you have nothing better to do than hang out at a Serbian website spewing garbage? Your lies are about as believable now as they were back then. Shouldn't you be bombing Syria now because of Assad's "chemical attack" on his own people? You know... the DAY that the UN inspectors were to arrive? and besides the fact that his forces were winning the battle against the "rebels". I'm not saying the NWO set him up or anything.... no not at all. Just like they didn't use Serbia as a scapegoat for the wars of the 1990's in the Balkans. Open your eyes dude... the writing is on the wall for anyone to see. You just have to use COMMON SENSE. Think about it... who had ANYTHING to gain out of all this? and where did they end up?
(cccchero, 30 August 2013 22:09)
So, two thirds are non serbians... This shows who killed more and hid their crimes...
Well what else would you expect from someone like Karadzic who was hiding for years with a pony tail... Brave serb heroes hiding in pony tails because of the crimes they did and hid.
(Montenegrin, 1 September 2013 19:19)
A comment coming from a Serbian nationalist it has no value for me Cccchero, people who wish death upon others like you do has no valu and not worth commenting back but this time i had too. What's wrong with ordinary Serbian i count all the people the same no matter coulor/race/religion so i come here to speak the truth not your "truth". As for Assad I don't really care what they do to him or if he stays in power for eternity, it's not my problem. I still blame the Serbs for all the wars in Ballkan cos i was there and I know first hand, you can spin it the way it suits you but the truth is on our side.
(Mendo, 31 August 2013 15:19)
I'm not expecting better from a nationalists like you. Be careful what you wish others! U ever heard of karma? B92 is English and anyone can right here. As for Assad I don't give a damn what happens to him or if he stays in power or not. Simply Assad not my problem. I think people like you brought Serbia to where it is today. Cheers
(Mendo, 31 August 2013 18:16)
"Also the U.S. back Tudjman who wrote a book in the early 1970's about how genocide was a natural and good thing. "
(ida, 2 September 2013 06:03)
Probably it was written in Serbo-Croatian, so that Mladic, Karadzic, Milosevic and all the other 'heroes' and 'defenders' could read and learn from it?
(Questioner, 2 September 2013 20:12)
It would be unheard of, if the USA, Canada, Sweden, France, etc; decided to kill and commit genocide against their own population that shared supposedly the same genetic make-up. Would America go to war and head to the south to kill their Southern Baptists brothers, would they head to the Northwest and kill their Norwegian American generations of Lutherans, or would American flock to the Northeast and send their armored vehicles to kill Italian Americans or Irish American Catholics. I doubt it. Yet, I have to give the Serbs some credit here; they are equal opportunist. More importantly, the Serbs did not discriminate against their Slavic genetic equals; the Serbs killed pillaged the Croat town of Vukovar, exterminated Bosnian Serbs of the Muslim faith in Srebenica. One can only imagine the horrors that these crazed lunatics Serbs brainwashed by their nationalist leaders inflicted on the natural and indigenous Albanian population. And then the audacity being raised among-st that small % of Serbian population missing is pathetic whenever the issue of missing people is raised. More audacious; is the fact some of these Serbs that fled Kosovo because of guilt of having done what they did have some illusionary ideas of ever returning.
(illyrianLover, 2 September 2013 20:46)
There are thousands of Albanian bodies in UN basements in Prishtina which the UN are still trying to identify.
(Haitan, 30 August 2013 18:02)
Do they arrive for work at 9 in the morning and leave around 4 in the afternoon? I hope they get a good salary for playing the part of dead bodies for CNN cameras. Because if they actually are dead being in a basement all that time, I think the stench would be overbearing.
(Dominican, 31 August 2013 16:44)
Very sad that those people are missing, but was it not for EU and USA to go berserk in ex-Yugo and encourage start of wars we would not have all those people killed. Sad really.
(Sreten, 31 August 2013 18:03)
You are wrong Mendo. The west was covertly supporting separatists to gradually break Yugoslavia into little ethnically pure or divided and occupied statelets. The U.S. and German were making moves to that effect YEARS before the war started.
And interesting how they supported Alija Izetbegovic who'd long dreamed of an Islamic state and was even jailed in the early 1980's with his group for seeking help of Islamic groups, including terrorist groups, for that end.
Also the U.S. back Tudjman who wrote a book in the early 1970's about how genocide was a natural and good thing.
The CIA obviously was reading these books and knew the authors would be good for their recipe to break up Yugoslavia.
(ida, 2 September 2013 06:03)
Very sad that those people are missing, but was it not for Serbia to go berserk in ex-Yugo we would not have all those people killed. Sad really.
(Mendo, 30 August 2013 19:02)
Mendo, I'm sad they didn't get you. Really. Would you please stop coming to a Serbian website? Why come here? Do you want to be Serbian that bad that you have nothing better to do than hang out at a Serbian website spewing garbage? Your lies are about as believable now as they were back then. Shouldn't you be bombing Syria now because of Assad's "chemical attack" on his own people? You know... the DAY that the UN inspectors were to arrive? and besides the fact that his forces were winning the battle against the "rebels". I'm not saying the NWO set him up or anything.... no not at all. Just like they didn't use Serbia as a scapegoat for the wars of the 1990's in the Balkans. Open your eyes dude... the writing is on the wall for anyone to see. You just have to use COMMON SENSE. Think about it... who had ANYTHING to gain out of all this? and where did they end up?
(cccchero, 30 August 2013 22:09)
There are thousands of Albanian bodies in UN basements in Prishtina which the UN are still trying to identify. I hope everyone in the Balkans can find out the fate of their loved ones so that the friends and families can move on. The problem is that mass graves keep getting discovered. But one day hopefully we can all move on from the dark days of the 1990s.
(Haitan, 30 August 2013 18:02)
Very sad that those people are missing, but was it not for EU and USA to go berserk in ex-Yugo and encourage start of wars we would not have all those people killed. Sad really.
(Sreten, 31 August 2013 18:03)
You are wrong Mendo. The west was covertly supporting separatists to gradually break Yugoslavia into little ethnically pure or divided and occupied statelets. The U.S. and German were making moves to that effect YEARS before the war started.
And interesting how they supported Alija Izetbegovic who'd long dreamed of an Islamic state and was even jailed in the early 1980's with his group for seeking help of Islamic groups, including terrorist groups, for that end.
Also the U.S. back Tudjman who wrote a book in the early 1970's about how genocide was a natural and good thing.
The CIA obviously was reading these books and knew the authors would be good for their recipe to break up Yugoslavia.
(ida, 2 September 2013 06:03)
There are thousands of Albanian bodies in UN basements in Prishtina which the UN are still trying to identify.
(Haitan, 30 August 2013 18:02)
Do they arrive for work at 9 in the morning and leave around 4 in the afternoon? I hope they get a good salary for playing the part of dead bodies for CNN cameras. Because if they actually are dead being in a basement all that time, I think the stench would be overbearing.
(Dominican, 31 August 2013 16:44)
I'm not expecting better from a nationalists like you. Be careful what you wish others! U ever heard of karma? B92 is English and anyone can right here. As for Assad I don't give a damn what happens to him or if he stays in power or not. Simply Assad not my problem. I think people like you brought Serbia to where it is today. Cheers
(Mendo, 31 August 2013 18:16)
A comment coming from a Serbian nationalist it has no value for me Cccchero, people who wish death upon others like you do has no valu and not worth commenting back but this time i had too. What's wrong with ordinary Serbian i count all the people the same no matter coulor/race/religion so i come here to speak the truth not your "truth". As for Assad I don't really care what they do to him or if he stays in power for eternity, it's not my problem. I still blame the Serbs for all the wars in Ballkan cos i was there and I know first hand, you can spin it the way it suits you but the truth is on our side.
(Mendo, 31 August 2013 15:19)
So, two thirds are non serbians... This shows who killed more and hid their crimes...
Well what else would you expect from someone like Karadzic who was hiding for years with a pony tail... Brave serb heroes hiding in pony tails because of the crimes they did and hid.
(Montenegrin, 1 September 2013 19:19)
"Also the U.S. back Tudjman who wrote a book in the early 1970's about how genocide was a natural and good thing. "
(ida, 2 September 2013 06:03)
Probably it was written in Serbo-Croatian, so that Mladic, Karadzic, Milosevic and all the other 'heroes' and 'defenders' could read and learn from it?
(Questioner, 2 September 2013 20:12)
It would be unheard of, if the USA, Canada, Sweden, France, etc; decided to kill and commit genocide against their own population that shared supposedly the same genetic make-up. Would America go to war and head to the south to kill their Southern Baptists brothers, would they head to the Northwest and kill their Norwegian American generations of Lutherans, or would American flock to the Northeast and send their armored vehicles to kill Italian Americans or Irish American Catholics. I doubt it. Yet, I have to give the Serbs some credit here; they are equal opportunist. More importantly, the Serbs did not discriminate against their Slavic genetic equals; the Serbs killed pillaged the Croat town of Vukovar, exterminated Bosnian Serbs of the Muslim faith in Srebenica. One can only imagine the horrors that these crazed lunatics Serbs brainwashed by their nationalist leaders inflicted on the natural and indigenous Albanian population. And then the audacity being raised among-st that small % of Serbian population missing is pathetic whenever the issue of missing people is raised. More audacious; is the fact some of these Serbs that fled Kosovo because of guilt of having done what they did have some illusionary ideas of ever returning.
(illyrianLover, 2 September 2013 20:46)