Domestic Mechanisms Database
The Domestic Mechanisms Database includes mechanisms from around the world that have been put in place at national levels to address the crime of enforced disappearances. It includes criminal, constitutional and civil legislation, truth and reconciliation bodies, search and forensic mechanisms, reparation among other domestic frameworks. Users can search the source bank through a filter-based or key-term search and access text in English, Spanish, Russian and French.
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Missing Persons Institute
The Missing Persons Institute was established as an independent, administrative authority for tracing missing or disappeared persons in/from Bosnia and Herzegovina and expediting the identifications of their mortal remains. Tracing requests for the registration of a missing person are submitted to the Institute by any family member or by other persons or institutions, if they can provide the minimum information about the missing or disappeared person's identity and the supposed date and place of the disappearance and the circumstances of the disappearance. Requests for tracing foreign citizens may also be submitted by foreign citizens if the missing or disappeared person: ...click to read more
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Bank of Genetic Profiles of Disappeared Persons
The Bank of Genetic Profiles of Disappeared Persons is established under the direction and coordination of the Attorney General's Office. The State's forensic genetics laboratories process, index, organise and enter into the Bank the information on the genetic profiles obtained from the bodies and remains of the victims. They also take, process and cross-check the biological samples of victims’ relatives who voluntarily authorise the operation for the identification of the disappeared. The laboratories code all information in a way that allows confidentiality, preservation and traceability. The Attorney General's Office is responsible for keeping relatives informed on the identification process, on ...click to read more
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Mapping System of the Location of the Bodies or Remains of Forcibly Disappeared Persons
The Attorney General's Office is responsible for preparing maps indicating the alleged location of the bodies or remains of disappeared persons, according to the National Search Plan. The confidential sharing of information on the location of bodies or remains of the disappeared is facilitated by the creation of a communication channel by the Public Ministry, the Attorney General's Office and the Judges. The bodies and remains that have not been identified are registered in the Missing Persons and Corpses Information System. Competent authorities are obliged to take a biological sample for genetic identification before the burial of unidentified remains or ...click to read more
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Exhumation Committee
A multidisciplinary independent Exhumation Committee is established every time that the National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared seizes a burial site. The mandate of the Committee is to excavate the burial site, exhume its content and identify remains buried therein. It establishes scientific procedures to conduct forensic analyses to identify human remains and, at the end of investigations, submits to the National Commission a comprehensive report, including video evidence and medical reports corroborating the identities of human remains. The Committee is composed of: one representative of families of forcibly disappeared persons; one expert specialising in identifying human remains; ...click to read more
Keywords: Search | Forensics / DNA
Forensic Medical Service and the National System of DNA Registration
The Forensic Medical Service operates under the Ministry of Justice and plays an essential role in establishing the identity of disappeared persons and possible causes of death. The Service maintains cooperation with accredited foreign institutions that provide it with support in the analysis of human remains. It developed the National DNA Registry System established on the basis of genetic fingerprints obtained during a criminal investigation. It includes the Registry of Disappeared Persons and Their Relatives, listing all missing persons, including those who may have been disappeared. The Registry of Disappeared Persons and Their Relatives contains the genetic fingerprints of corpses ...click to read more
Keywords: Search | Forensics / DNA