17,000 Still Missing From Balkan Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/world/europe/30balkans.html
August 30, 2007
17,000 Still Missing From Balkan Wars
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE [former Yugoslavia] [Bosnia] [Croatia] [Slovenia] [MIAs from the 1990s] [incredibly high numbers] [note: the predominant group from Bosnia] [Serb-Bosnian atrocities particularly bad] [*********]
BELGRADE, Serbia, Aug. 29 (Agence France-Presse) — At least 17,000 people are still missing from the wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/world/europe/30balkans.html
August 30, 2007
17,000 Still Missing From Balkan Wars
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE [former Yugoslavia] [Bosnia] [Croatia] [Slovenia] [MIAs from the 1990s] [incredibly high numbers] [note: the predominant group from Bosnia] [Serb-Bosnian atrocities particularly bad] [*********]
BELGRADE, Serbia, Aug. 29 (Agence France-Presse) — At least 17,000 people are still missing from the wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday.
More than 13,400 of those missing were from Bosnia’s war, [***] some 2,300 from Croatia’s conflict and 2,047 from strife in Kosovo, the committee said in a statement. The figures were released ahead of the International Day of the Disappeared on Thursday.
“For years now, ever since the conflict in the former Yugoslavia broke out, the I.C.R.C. has strived to support the plea of the families of missing persons, hoping to bring about more answers on the fate of their beloved,” said Paul Henri Arni, the head of the Red Cross in Belgrade.
Some estimates say 200,000 people were killed and 2.2 million displaced in Bosnia’s 1992-95 conflict, but an independent study issued in June put the number of dead at fewer than 100,000. [*****] More than 20,000 are believed to have been killed in Croatia’s 1991-95 war, and up to 10,000 in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999.
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