Cadaver dogs and new scanners for the recognition of mortal remains, which will be applied in the coming period, will contribute to additional help in finding about 7.600 missing people from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), it was stated from the round-table discussion of the Coordination of the Association of Families of Missing Persons in BiH.
Semina Alekic, president of the Coordination of the Association of Families of Missing Persons in BiH, said that during the round-table discussion “How to speed up the resolution of the fates of the missing persons in BiH from the war period 1992-1995”, they reached positive conclusions, due to which they hope to speed up the process of finding the most beloved family members.
”We, the families who are still searching for their missing persons, will always take steps to contribute to the acceleration of this process,” said Alekic.
She adds that one of the contributions is the exchange of information about the achieved results, new knowledge, and tools for discovering potential grave sites.
”Today we received encouraging information, we learned that the institutions are working on drafting their acts, where they will unify and synchronize them, create a synergy of information exchange, where more information will not be in more places, but in one place,” Alekic said 3 days ago.
So far, about 80 percent of the victims of the war have been found, said Mujo Hadziomerovic, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Missing Persons in BiH, and the search for about 7.600 more people whose finding, due to a longer period of time and less cooperation of witnesses, is significantly more difficult.
He said that, regardless of aggravating circumstances, they are trying to use new methods to speed up the work of finding the remains.
”There are scanners in the world that can recognize the contents below the ground up to two meters. We started collecting bids in order to get better results,” he said, adding that they also engaged the Civil Protection in Sarajevo, which has a similar scanner, which recognizes the contents below the ground at a depth of about one meter.
”For a year now, we have been expecting the Norwegian People’s Aid based in Vogosca for the training of Belgian shepherd dogs, which, I say this because it encourages me, have already gone to the area of Nevesinje and recognized two tombs, and recognized one in Gacko,” he stated.
He said that the Institute is satisfied with the activities during this year and that the number of found and identified remains are significantly higher compared to the previous year.Witnesses reporting information and helping to find the missing is one of the most effective methods, regardless of false reports and unsuccessful searches, which is why Hadziomerovic said they hope for more active participation of such persons.
”It could not happen that a tomb of 200 or 300 people was the result of two people, it had to be organized by more people,” he said, adding that they are trying to find traces of those persons, in order to find the missing, Detektor writes.
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