Bosnian Serb ministry publishes names of over 2,400 Serbs killed in Sarajevo
BBC Monitoring Europe - Political - April 27, 2005, Wednesday

Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Banja Luka, 27 April: Representatives of the [Bosnian] Serb Republic Ministry of Internal Affairs [MUP RS] today presented a preliminary list of 2,436 Serbs who were killed and 575 who went missing in Sarajevo between 1992 and 1995.

The list of Serbs who were killed or who went missing was published on the MUP RS web site in the "war crimes" section.

Radovan Pejic, spokesman for the RS police director, told journalists in Banja Luka that a list of 2,435 murdered Serbs, all civilians, was published on the RS MUP web site and that there is another name which was not published for technical reasons, he explained.

He said that the RS MUP had arrived at this list through an investigation and that the list was preliminary and not final.

"This list that we have arrived at in the process of documentation and investigative actions so far refers to those who were killed. The available documents show that the number is not final and that it will most probably be double the preliminary figure," Pejic said. [Passage omitted]

SOURCE: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 11:33 GMT, 27 Apr 05

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