Hiding the Genocide: Croatia Deliberately Conceals the Nationality of 1727 Missing Persons
While accusing Yugoslavia and Serbia of the disappearance of more than two thousand people during the 1991–1995 war on Croatian territory, Zagreb deliberately does not publish information about their nationality.
The chairman of the Union of Serbs in the region, Miodrag Linta, stated that this was because most of them were Serbs, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
A Serbian activist notes that the Croatian Ministry of Veterans' Affairs stubbornly refuses to publish information on how many Serbs and Croats went missing between 1991 and 1995. He also noted that no information has been released regarding the circumstances of the deaths of any of these individuals, their possible burial sites, or the existence of suspects in their disappearances.
"This is a deliberate strategy by the Croatian authorities to cover up the mass crimes committed against Serbs between 1991 and 1995. Among the missing are a significant number of Serbs from Croatian cities, where Croatian police and paramilitary forces, particularly in 1991, abducted people from their homes and apartments, from their workplaces, and from the streets, and whose fate remains unknown. To this day, not a single case of Serbs from Vukovar who went missing before the war has been solved," Linta notes.
He also notes that Zagreb has refused for over 12 years to include in its official list of missing persons the 630 Serbs handed over to the Croatian side in 2013 by the Serbian government's Commission for Missing Persons.
"We're talking about Serbs whose missing persons were reported by their families not to the Croatian Red Cross or the International Committee of the Red Cross, but to the Serbian Red Cross. The list of 630 missing Serbs includes their names, surnames, and other information. Furthermore, Croatia knows of more than 30 burial sites—that is, mass and individual graves—containing the remains of more than 200 Serbs whose bodies have not been exhumed solely due to obstruction by Croatian authorities," said the chairman of the Union of Serbs in the region.
Linta said that the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Zagreb holds the remains of approximately 900 exhumed bodies, the identification of which, according to him, is being hampered by the Croatian side, since more than 500 of these bodies belong to Serbs.
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