Aryanews- Some 10,000 people are still considered missing almost 15 years after the end of the war in Bosnia, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday.
ICRC would continue "to work towards shedding a light over the fate of all missing persons" from the 1992-95 conflict, the head of its office in Bosnia, Henry Fournier, was quoted as saying in a statement after talks with the Muslim-Croat Federation of the ethnically divided Balkans nation.
"There are still some 10,000 missing whose fate remains unknown and their names are still on the ICRC lists" of missing persons, said the statement issued after Fournier met the federation's Prime Minister Mustafa Mujezinovic.
The Dayton Peace Accord which ended the 1992-1995 civil war divided the country into two semi-autonomous halves -- the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serbs' Republika Srpska (RS) -- linked by weak central institutions.
Out of some 40,000 considered missing in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in 1990s, 30,000 were originally from Bosnia, according to data by the International Commission for the Missing Persons (ICMP).
In March, the ICMP said it has dentified some 6,414 people considered missing in the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, where more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces.