Blood tests help Bosnian families find closure after war

Relatives of victims of the Bosnian war hope the initiative will help find the remains of their loved ones.

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That is the extremely delicate challenge facing missing persons organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

They are trying to trace around 7,000 people who still have not been found, almost 30 years on from the end of the Bosnian war, which lasted from 1992-95.

Meanwhile, the remains of almost 2,000 people are lying unidentified in the country’s mortuaries.

The obvious conclusion would be that some of the missing might be found in these locations.

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