Ten years since end of war - 14,000 Bosnians still missing

Ten years since the end of war, the fate of 14,000 missing Bosnians is still unknown.

The Bosnian working group for missing persons, which works under the auspices of the International Red Cross, also said that Bosnia still did not have a unified state list of those who were missing as well as those who had been found and identified.

Over the years, UN and local forensic experts have exhumed 16,500 bodies from some 580 mass graves, Marko Jurisic, a member of the working group told a conference.

About 260,000 people were killed and 1.8 million driven from their homes during the 1992-95 conflict, which pitted Bosnia’s Muslims, Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs against each other.

The group said at least 8,000 more missing were yet to be found in mass graves scattered throughout the country.

“We need more information on mass graves as well as single graves. We still just do not have relevant information about that,” Jurisic said.