Some 275 complete and 120 incomplete bodies of the victims were recovered from this mass grave so far and intensive activities are undertaken on their identification.

The process of final identification of victims is being carried out in continuity with the intent to proceed as soon as possible following the exhumation of bodies from the mass grave. The exhumation process is in progress as of end of September last year.

The pace of the process was limited for some time due to the number of DNA findings concerning the victims that the ICMP could complete.

Those activities have been intensified and the ICMP has significantly increased the number of findings lately, which opened the possibility to expedite the final identification of the victims.

In this regard, the Assigned Prosecutor made some relevant instructions or orders, thus defining deadlines, measures and actions that the Prosecutor's Office of BiH and all actors involved are to undertake with the aim to complete the final identification of the victims, whose complete bodies were found in mass grave Tomašica, by the end of June 2014.

The Prosecutor's Office of BiH expects to receive assistance of  the citizens' associations from Prijedor municipality, as well as family members of victims, in the identification as to make sure that this demanding procedure is performed within the deadline and thus ensure that the burial of the victims be carried out as planned on July 20, 2014.

Along with the process of identification the team of Prosecutors and authorized officials is, together with police agencies, intensively taking statements from witnesses and families of the victims and performing other investigative actions within the scope of war crimes cases handled by the Prosecutor's Office of BiH aiming to prosecute those responsible for war crimes committed against the victims found in this mass grave.

Other activities are also undertaken in order to identify other mass grave sites which are assumed to exist in the municipality of Prijedor and which contain the bodies of victims hidden by perpetrators of war crimes.

The Prosecutor's Office of BiH once again calls for the authorities and the international community to support the process of tracing and identifying the missing persons in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, because it is a process that requires considerable resources and is of great importance to the families of the victims, who have been searching for their loved ones for 20 years.

This process is of great importance for war crimes cases as well because the recovered and identified remains are important evidence.

The Prosecutor's Office of BiH continues with intensive activities on tracing and identifying the missing persons in all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is necessary for peace, the rule of law, justice and reconciliation in our country.

During the war in BIH about 30.000 persons went missing. Some 23.000 have been found to date and about 7.000 are still missing.