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Illustration. Photo: War Veterans’ Ministry.

The Croatian War Veterans Ministry announced on Monday that the remains of 20 Croatian Serbs who killed in 1995 have been successfully identified at the Department for Forensic Medicine in Zagreb.

Minister Tomo Medved and his assistant who heads the Administration for Missing and Imprisoned Persons, Stjepan Sucic, were present as the remains of 20 Serbs, found in five different counties – Zadar, Karlovac, Sisak-Moslavina, Pozega-Slavonia and Brod-Posavina – were identified using DNA samples.

All of them were killed during Croatia’s ‘Flash’ and ‘Storm’ military operations in 1995.

Offering his condolences to the families of those who were identified, Medved said that the government treats the subject of missing persons as “a priority humanitarian issue”.

He insisted that the ministry deals with resolving the fate and whereabouts of all missing Croatian citizens “independently of their ethnicity”.

Croatia is still searching for 1,509 missing citizens from the 1990s war. A further 414 people are known to have died, but their remains have yet to be found.