Some 40,000 persons were reported missing since the Bonsnian war began last decade, Chairman of Search Committee for Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina Masociv Omer said Sunday.
On the occasion of the World Day for the Missing, Omer told KUNA that the total of missing persons in the former Yugoslavian state are 40,000, with 80 percent being Bosnian Muslims during the five-year ethnic war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The committee said that hundreds of skeletons are waiting to be identified, as many families have vanished, and DNA to match the bones has not been at hand.
Omer added that the DNA examination is the most accurate way to identify the bones.
During the last years, many mass graves were found and many of the missing bodies were among them, Omer said, yet the number of missing persons is still high due to the fact that most of them were killed during the fall of the Yugoslavian state.

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