20,000 Bosnians still missing

Sarajevo - The Red Cross said yesterday that almost 20,000 Bosnians were still missing three years after the war and political…

Sarajevo - The Red Cross said yesterday that almost 20,000 Bosnians were still missing three years after the war and political indifference was hampering the search.

It said it had received 19,943 queries from families with missing relatives but the authorities in Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and Serb republic had so far solved only 1,800 cases.

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