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Geneva, 29 June 2009 At
the end (1996) of the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH),
between 25,000 and 30,000 people were reported as
“missing”. Almost 15 years have passed, and about 13,000
people remain disappeared to date, while their relatives endure a
permanent state of anguish and uncertainty. Many exhumations have been carried out and a number of legislative
initiatives have been undertaken. Nevertheless, significant obstacles
to the full implementation by BiH of the 1992 United Nations Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearancetion remain and
should be addressed, as the rights of victims of enforced disappearance
and their relatives continue to be impaired. Under
its mandate, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or
Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) can transmit to governments a
summary of allegations received from relatives of disappeared people
and NGOs with regards to obstacles encountered in the implementation of
the 1992 Declaration, inviting them to comment thereon. Today,
TRIAL (Track Impunity Always - Swiss association against impunity)
submitted to the UNWGEID a General Allegation about the existing
obstacles to the implementation of 1992 Declaration in BiH, requesting
the Group to transmit the allegations to the government of BiH and to invite it to give its comments on the mentioned obstacles. More on the topic in English here.
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