One day at a time, they pass.
And the list of missing of Srebrenica and other victims of the Bosnian War is still not a list of the dead. Thank God for those who still bother to count.
16, 600 Said Missing From Bosnian War
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 25, 2004
Filed at 10:31 p.m. ET
GENEVA (AP) — The
International Red Cross said Thursday that it was still looking for
16,600 people missing from the war in Bosnia, almost a decade after the
conflict in the Balkan nation.
“The sheer numbers express better
than anything else the anxiety of so many who have lived so long in
uncertainty,” said Werner Kaspar, head of Bosnia operations at the
International Committee of the Red Cross.
Since the end of the
1992-95 war, painstaking work by the Red Cross and other organizations
has resolved 5,000 cases of missing people. Most have been confirmed
dead, often through forensic analysis of bodies, ICRC officials said.
Bosnia
is littered with mass graves from the conflict, which was marked by the
slaughter of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in July 1995 when Bosnian
Serbs overran the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica.
The Swiss-based
ICRC has published six editions of its Book of the Missing from the
Bosnian conflict, listing names and places of disappearance of people
whose fate thousands of families are trying to discover.
The
Bosnian war, part of the fighting during the break up of Yugoslavia
that began in 1991, killed some 260,000 people and left 1.8 million
homeless.