Former Yugoslavia: families search for relatives

Families of missing persons in the former Yugoslavia have criticised the various authorities there for not doing enough to help find their relatives.

More than twenty thousand people are still missing after the war in Bosnia and a further fifteen-hundred in Croatia.

Families' associations from Bosnia, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia convened in Sarajevo and met officials involved in the searches.

A BBC correspondent who was at the meeting says investigators are finding new mass grave sites every week, but that money for exhumations is scarce and that the process of identification could take years.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service