< Back to situations

[ORGANIZATION]

International Commission on Missing Persons

Featured in 5 tracked stories · first seen

Situations

[ACTIVE] [CULTURE] [VN] [KH] [LA]

Vietnam 500-day war-dead identification campaign (Oct 2026)

139 clusters · 67 sources · last updated

Latest: Nghệ An launches second phase of DNA sampling for martyrs' relatives

The nationwide “500-day-night” campaign to identify war dead continues to expand across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. As of October 15, 2026, the campaign has recovered 3,686 sets of remains, comprising 2,416 within Vietn

[ACTIVE] [INTERNATIONAL] [XK] [BA] [HR]

Missing persons from Yugoslav Wars

6 clusters · 32 sources · last updated

Latest: Disputes arise over cooperation in locating missing persons in Balkans

Data from the International Commission on Missing Persons indicates that approximately 40,000 people went missing during the 1990s armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Current searches focus on roughly 11,000 indivi

[QUIET] [CULTURE] [HR] [BA] [RS]

Regional commemorations and victim identification

8 clusters · 49 sources · last updated

Latest: Škabrnja opens Memorial Center for Homeland War victims

Commemorations across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Slovenia continue to honor victims of historical conflicts. Recent observances in Croatia included the 35th anniversary of the formation of the A Battalion of th

[QUIET] [INTERNATIONAL] [XK] [RS] [AL]

Kosovo war crimes investigations and legal challenges

6 clusters · 65 sources · last updated

Latest: Idriz Rrecaj remains to be reburied in Skenderaj after 27 years

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has announced a state strategy to respond to a first-instance verdict from the Specialized Chambers in The Hague. The court sentenced former KLA leaders Hashim Thaçi, Jakup Krasniqi, Kadri Vese

Also covered in