The Sarajevo-based International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) issued a statement on Friday to mark August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, saying that the issue of missing persons was one of the most important problems that should be addressed by all governments.
In the statement, ICMP Director General Kathryne Bomberger recalled the fact that about 40,000 people had gone missing during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s alone. Thanks to huge efforts that have been made, about 70 per cent of reported missing person cases have been resolved, but the remaining unresolved cases require equal attention, she said.
In addition to the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Peru, Argentina, East Timor and South Africa are countries that have made the greatest effort in prosecuting those responsible, and civil society is actively engaged and modern forensic methods, including DNA, are used.
"Today ICMP joins hundreds of thousands of families of missing persons from the countries of the Western Balkans, as well as Cyprus, Iraq, Spain, Lebanon, Kuwait, Libya, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Nepal, Guatemala, India, Pakistan, Algeria, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Yemen, Somalia, South Africa and many other countries around the world in paying tribute to missing persons. In doing so, ICMP joins hundreds of thousands of families of missing persons in raising awareness about this global issue, whose resolution is not only important to provide a sense of closure for individual families of the missing, but for the implementation of the rule of law and the establishment of peace and justice," the statement said.
Saturday 31 August 2013
http://dalje.com/en-world/icmp--missing-persons-issue-deserves-attention-of-whole-world/481199
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