Amor Mašović
Amor Mašović | |
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![]() Amor Mašović at funeral procession in Sarajevo for Srebrenica massacre funeral in 2015 | |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
Personal details | |
Born | Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia | 29 November 1955
Political party | Party of Democratic Action |
Alma mater | University of Sarajevo |
Amor Mašović (born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 29 November 1955),[1] is a Bosnian politician and Chairman of the Bosnian Federal Commission for Missing Persons. During the Bosnian War, Amor Mašović was the person responsible on the Bosnian government side for negotiating prisoner exchanges and was involved in the ultimately fruitless negotiations for the exchange of Col. Avdo Palić, the "disappeared" commander of the enclave of Žepa.[2]
He is a Member of Parliament of the Bosnia and Herzegovina[3] and a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.[4]
Investigations for Missing Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina
As Chairman of the Commission for Missing Persons he is responsible for maintaining the records of individuals missing since the Bosnian War, efforts to trace such individuals, recording and identification of bodily remains, investigation of mass and individual graves, co-operation with local courts in conducting exhumations, autopsies, identifications and evidence gathering, assistance with burial arrangements, and cooperation with UN specialized agencies (
Under his leadership the Commission's investigative teams had as of 30 December 2007 located over 370 mass graves and over 3,000 joint and individual graves and the exhumation of the remains of some 18,000 missing war victims.[4]
In October 2010, he was involved in investigations at
References
- ^ "Parlament Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine DOM NARODA | Delegat - Mašović Amor". parlamentfbih.gov.ba. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Case no. CH/99/3196, Avdo and Esma PALIC vs REPUBLIKA SRPSKA,DECISION ON ADMISSIBILITY AND MERITS, delivered 11 January 2001
- ^ Alliance, Kingdom. "SDA.BA | Bosna i Hercegovina". sda.ba. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ^ a b "TRIFUNOVIC SHOWS CONTEMPT FOR THE VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE WHILE SALUTING THE CRIME AND CRIMINALS", Bosniaks.net, 30 December 2007. http://www.bosniaks.net/prilog.php?pid=24420
- ^ Bosnian Federal Commission for Missing Persons http://www.fbihvlada.gov.ba/english/posebna%20tijela/nestali.php
- ^ Barlovac, Bojana (2010-09-13). "Corpses of 250 People Exhumed from Perucac Lake". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
External links
- Bosnian Federal Commission for Missing Persons [1]