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The Institute for Missing Persons (INO) of Bosnia and Herzegovina is still waiting for the search plan to be submitted by the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA). i.e. the project of a detailed and expert examination of the site of the former Vihovići mine in Mostar, where, according to well-founded suspicions, hides a mass grave with the bodies of between 80 and 100 murdered citizens, mostly Bosniak and Serb nationalities. On the other hand, SIPA does not have this project.
Field search
Let us remind you that in mid-November last year, at the request of the INO, members of the Diving and Mountaineering Team of the Special Support Unit of the SIPA were engaged, with the aim of examining and searching the terrain up to a detailed plan.
At the time, the INO announced that intensive activities would begin in the spring, and although they are waiting for a final plan with an exact methodology, the most certain model is the draining of the lake, for which the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina needs to issue an order.
Not long after the war, let’s recall, information appeared that a mass grave was hidden in the Vihovići mining pit. Despite this, a detailed and serious search of the terrain has never been carried out until now.
In the meantime, new reliable information has emerged.
Strong indications
One of them was given to a girl from Mostar Elvira Ela Stojić, who has been searching for the remains of her father Alexander for 30 yearswho, as she recently told, was taken away from her apartment on the Stari Velež playground in sweatpants and slippers by HVO fighters.
“I responsibly claim that there are strong indications, confirmed by witness statements, that there is a mass grave in the artificial lake in the Vihovići mine and that there are dozens of Mostar women and men, innocent victims of war crimes,” she said.
