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[:en]17 March 2015: The authorities must implement the BiH Law on Missing Persons fully and as a matter of urgency, participants at a roundtable in Mostar agreed today.
The roundtable, organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), brought together representatives of family associations and the authorities as well as academic and legal experts to discuss ways of increasing the effectiveness of efforts to account for the missing.
The BiH Law on Missing Persons was enacted at the end of 2004, providing for the establishment of the Missing Persons Institute (MPI) to coordinate the search for the missing, the establishment of the Central Records of Missing Persons, and the establishment of a Fund to ensure that families of the missing receive necessary financial support. The Law also prescribes procedures for memorials.
The MPI was launched in 2005 and became fully operational in 2008. The Central Records were created in 2011, but only half of the more than 30,000 names listed have gone through a verification process, and the slow pace of verification has been one of the contributory factors to the authorities’ failure until now to establish the Fund for Support to Families of the Missing.
The Fund was seen as a practical way of helping families who are in many cases among the most vulnerable in society. In its absence, many families have been left to manage as best they can without even minimal support from the authorities.
Implementing the Law on Missing Persons, including establishing the Fund for the Families of the Missing, was one of the recommendations presented in the BiH Stocktaking Report, published by ICMP in December, which describes two decades of efforts to account for the missing and examines specific issues in Lower Podrinje, Upper Podrinje, Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Posavina, Central Bosnia, Northeast Bosnia and Western Bosnia.
Further roundtables will be organized in Sarajevo on 19 March and in Banja Luka on 26 March.[:bs]Vlasti moraju provesti BiH Zakon o nestalim osobama u potpunosti – I to hitno, složili su se danas učesnici okruglog stola u Mostaru.
Okrugli sto, u organizaciji Međunarodne komisije za nestale osobe (ICMP), okupio je predstavnike udruženja porodica, vlasti, kao i akademske i pravne stručnjake, kako bi se razmotrilo povećanje učinkovitosti napora koji se čine prema pronalaženju nestalih.
BiH Zakon o nestalim osobama, koji je stupio na snagu krajem 2004. predvidio je uspostavu Instituta za nestale osobe (INO) koji koordinira radom na pronalaženju nestalih, te uspostavu Centralne evidencije nestalih osoba i Fonda kako bi se se osiguralo da porodice nestalih dobiju potrebnu finansijsku pomoć. Zakon takođe propisuje postupke obilježavanja spomena na nestale.
Institut je uspostavljen 2005., a potpuno operativan je postao 2008.godine. Centralna evidencija je kreirana 2011.godine ali samo pola od više od 30,000 imena sa popisa je prošlo proces provjere i spori tempo provjere tih podataka je bio jedan od glavnih razloga zašto vlasti do sada nisu uspjele uspostaviti Fond za podršku porodicama nestalih.
Fond je trebao predstavljati praktičan način pomaganja porodicama koje su u mnogim slučajevima među najugroženijim u društvu. Bez ovog Fonda, mnoge porodice su ostavljene da žive kako znaju, bez minimalne podrške vlasti.
Provedba Zakona o nestalim osobama, uključujući i uspostavu Fonda za porodice nestalih je bila jedna od preporuka koja je prezentirana u okviru Izvještaja o pregledu stanja u BiH koji je ICMP objavio u decembru, a koji opisuje dvadesetogodišnje napore na pronalaženju nestalih, te proučava specifična pitanja u donjem Podrinju, gornjem Podrinju, Hercegovini, Sarajevu, Posavini, centralnoj Bosni, sjeveroistočnoj Bosni i zapadnoj Bosni.
Naredni skupovi ove vrste će se organizovati u Sarajevu 19. marta, te u Banja Luci 26. marta.[:]
