Croatia: Prime Minister pledges to continue search for missing persons

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković visited the Petrovačka Dola waste landfill near Vukovar to inspect ongoing investigations into the location of missing persons from the Homeland War. Accompanied by Minister of Croatian Veterans Tome Medved, Plenković emphasized that the government remains committed to finding every individual on the list of detainees and missing persons.

Plenković reported that authorities are searching for more than 300 missing persons in the Vukovar area and nearly 450 in the Vukovar-Srijem County. He noted that progress has been made, with over 50 individuals identified in the Vukovar area. The Prime Minister described the landfill site as a mass grave where remains were intentionally hidden under layers of waste, sometimes requiring excavations up to 17 meters deep.

Regarding cooperation with Serbian authorities, Plenković stated that previous decades of efforts to obtain information have not been successful. He indicated that Croatia will continue to request information to locate those who disappeared.