NUŽDIĆ: SEARCH FOR MISSING SERBS POLITICIZED AT BiH LEVEL

BANJA LUKA, SEPTEMBER 15 /SRNA/ – The Acting Director of the Republic Research Centre of War, War Crimes, and Tracing Missing Persons Viktor Nuždić stated that the search for missing Serbs is at a standstill because this process, which should have been humanitarian, has been politicized at the level of BiH.

"The process of searching for missing persons of Serb ethnic background is closely connected with the inefficiency of judicial institutions at the BiH level," Nuždić told the press in Banja Luka, in front of the Church of Christ the Savior, where he attended a memorial service marking the Day of Fallen and Missing Persons of Republika Srpska. Nuždić emphasized that the processes conducted before the Court of BiH have been disastrous for the Serb people, as only 14% of the crimes against Serbs have been prosecuted. He has also pointed out that the trials for war crimes against Serbs are closely connected with the search for missing Serbs, noting that more than 1,600 soldiers and civilians from Republika Srpska are still missing according to the official list. Ružica Pejić, the widow of a fallen soldier of the Republika Srpska Army from Vozuća, told reporters that she remembers with great sorrow the death of her husband and 11 of his closest relatives, who were brutally killed by Mujahideen on September 10, 1995, in Vozuća. She mentioned that, in 2008, she found only the skull of her husband, which was identified and buried, but she has never been able to recover the rest of his body.