ICRC: 17,000 missing in Bosnia
(CNN) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday almost 17,000 people are still missing in Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 years after the end of the Bosnian conflict.
The ICRC has published an updated list of people who went missing during the war and whose fates have not yet been determined.
The list -- called the Book of the Missing in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- "contains the names of more than 16,600 persons still unaccounted for. It bears witness to the suffering of thousands of families in that country who, 10 years after the war ended, are still waiting for news of what happened to their missing loved ones," it says.
The purpose of the book is to "provide data for organizations trying to trace missing persons," it says.
The names of the missing people are listed alphabetically and by place of disappearance.
The book offers separate lists of people "reporting by their families for whom no additional information has been obtained, and of persons reported missing by their families for whom the ICRC has received information about their death, but whose bodies have not yet been found."
Between the end of the war and November, the ICRC received in total over 21,700 requests to trace missing people, solving more than 5,000 cases.
