The fate of 1,797 people who went missing during the 1991-1995 war of independence from what was then Yugoslavia remains unknown.
In Croatia, near the city of Vukovar, the remains of 10 people who probably died during the country’s war of independence in the 1990s were found in a garbage dump, writes Reuters.
These people are believed to have disappeared during the war. Investigators suggest the dead may have been buried elsewhere and then moved to a landfill. The assumption is based on the fact that because the remains are covered with soil and mud, they are not typical for the location where they were found.
Ivona Paltrinieri, head of the missing persons department at the country’s Ministry of War Veterans, suggests that the remains were probably moved to a landfill in January 1992, after the temporary occupation of Vukovar. Investigators believe they may find remains of other bodies there.
Paltrinieri noted that the fate of the people who disappeared in 1797 during the 1991-1995 War of Independence from what was then Yugoslavia remains unknown, especially the 500 people who disappeared in Vukovar-Srijem County.
In total, about 150 mass grave sites have been discovered in the country.
We add that the city of Vukovar, near the Serbian border, was completely destroyed during a three-month siege by the Serbian Yugoslav army and local Serbian militia in 1991. During the siege of the city, about 1,600 defenders and civilians died.
In Ukraine, particularly near occupied Mariupol, there are now numerous mass graves containing thousands of unidentified bodies.
Source: korrespondent
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