National Board of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine in Linköping, Linköping, Sweden.
Ministry for Croatian Veterans, Directorate for Detained and Missing Persons, Zagreb, Croatia; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Forensic Sci Int. 2021 Jan;318:110609. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110609. Epub 2020 Nov 19.
The search for victims of World War Two (WWII) and the immediate aftermath period (postwar) in Croatia started together with the search for Homeland War victims in 1991. It continued through years, most often sporadically and in a non-homogenous way. It was just with the adoption of the Law on Research, Arrangement and Maintenance of Military Cemeteries, Cemeteries of Victims of WWII and Postwar Period in 2013 that the search became more structured and gained a formal governmental body responsible for the organization and supervision of the activities related to it. It was then that the well-established model of searching for Homeland War victims, based on many years of field work and research, started to be implemented in the search and analysis of WWII/postwar victims. The model represents a continuously growing and developing project which encompasses a wide variety of steps and procedures, from the investigation of alleged burial locations to the analysis and reburial of recovered mortal remains. From its implementation in 2016, it allowed the successful investigation of 1300 alleged burial locations, 484 field surveys, 42 exhumations and the recovery of remains of more than 1600 individuals. Besides, care for military cemeteries, marking of mass burial sites and arranging of international treaties are conducted in order to guarantee proper handling, relocation and repatriation of all those that perished during WWII and the postwar period.
在克罗地亚，对二战（WWII）和战后时期（战后）受害者的搜寻始于 1991 年与对家园战争受害者的搜寻同时开始。它持续了多年，大多数情况下是断断续续的，而且方式不统一。直到 2013 年通过了《研究、安排和维护军事公墓、二战和战后时期受害者公墓法》，搜寻工作才变得更加有组织，成立了一个负责组织和监督相关活动的正式政府机构。正是在那时，基于多年的实地工作和研究，基于对家园战争受害者的搜索的成熟模式开始在对二战/战后受害者的搜索和分析中实施。该模型代表了一个不断发展和壮大的项目，涵盖了从调查涉嫌埋葬地点到分析和重新埋葬已发现的遗体等各种步骤和程序。自 2016 年实施以来，该模型成功调查了 1300 个涉嫌埋葬地点、484 次实地调查、42 次挖掘以及 1600 多人的遗体。此外，还对军事公墓进行了护理、大规模埋葬地点进行了标记，并安排了国际条约，以确保妥善处理、搬迁和遣返所有在二战和战后期间丧生的人。
