Expert: “There are 36 unexplored mass graves of Serb civilians on Croatian territory”
Prvča near Nova Gradiška in Howarthia is one of the places where exhumation needs to be carried out, since hundreds of Serbs killed during Operation Lightning (Bljesak) were buried there.
This was announced today by the Special Representative of the President of Serbia for missing persons, Veran Matic, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Matic, the witness provided information to the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office about what happened in Prvča in early May 1995.
Then the Croatian military carried out ethnic cleansing in Western Slavonia, which was part of the unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina, under the name Operation "Lightning" (Bljesak), which became the prologue of the August operation "Storm" (Oluja).
According to him, the Prvča site was previously unknown along with the other 36 mass graves of Serbs on Croatian territory.
“I have asked our Missing Persons Commission to request satellite images of the site from the International Committee of the Red Cross,” said the special representative of the Serbian President, saying that more than a hundred people are believed to be buried at the site.
The expert added that Serbia is now waiting for Croatia's consent to exhume the remains. Matic emphasized that the frightening fact is that there is a Member State in the EU on whose territory there are at least 36 mass graves, which to this day have not been examined, for the reason that official Zagreb has not responded in any way to related requests.
“I think that the Croatian side does not have a clear answer why this is happening, and that the Serbian side has the right to ask international organizations related to missing persons to solve this problem,” Matic said.
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