The Serbian government Missing Persons Committee released on Friday that remains of 13 persons who were killed in the 1991-1995 armed conflicts in Croatia have been identified.

The victims were exhumed in Petrinja, Dvor, Vukovar, Osijek, Kukunjevci and other locations, and the identification procedure was conducted at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology with the Zagreb School of Medicine.

All human remains have been identified by means of DNA analysis, and will be buried according to the wishes of their families whose arrival in Zagreb was organised by the Missing Persons Committee and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

According to the data by the Serbian documentation and information centre Veritas, the list of persons who went missing in Croatia comprises 2.126 more persons of Serbian nationality, including 1.419 civilians, of whom 567 are women.

Veritas notes that it has reliable information about 624 registered graves in the territory of Croatia and former Republika Srpska Krajina, which contain unidentified human remains of Serbs, which have still not been exhumed and identified even though the armed clashes ended 15 years ago.