Improving the Process of Tracing Missing Persons Discussed

Meeting Between Representatives of SIPA and Non-governmental Organizations

Today (11/05/2015), A meeting between representatives of the Sector for investigation of war crimes and crimes punishable under international humanitarian law of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) and representatives of the non-governmental organizations, members of the Witness Support Network, was held in the Hotel "Sarajevo". The meeting was organized in partnership with the Local Democracy Foundation.

The meeting focused on future joint activities, as well as improving the process of tracing missing persons in BiH. SIPA police officials, among other things, presented at the meeting plan of activities of the media campaign, which aims at intensifying the search for missing persons. The focus will be to motivate citizens to submit all available information that can help discovering mass graves throughout the country, as well as information related to war crimes, perpetrators or other information useful to detect and successfully prosecute war crimes perpetrators.