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From: "Ed Agro" 
Subject:       Missing persons project (in English)

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Subject:       Missing persons project (in English)
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Date:          Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:49:37

(Za jezika, vidite drugu poruku)

(Note: Please also see late iinformation about the ICRC program,
which I'll post in 1 - 2 days. - ed)

Dubravko Kakagiri and I in the US, and Frank Tiggelaar in the
Netherlands, have been working to make information about persons
missing or displaced in the Balkans wars available on the
internet. Our records are at the PFS (People Finder Service)
site, and on Frank's xs4all site and Damir Tomicic's Croatia and
BiH pages, also located in the Netherlands. There is also 
Veseljko Simonovic's ICRC/BBC missing-persons page, located in 
London.

The problem is that none of these records are currently available
in the Balkans, as web pages cannot be read on ZaMirNet (ZTN),
and so far, the .yu domain has proven unreliable. 

At present, no-one in fY is working with us on this missing-
persons work. We had expected that our records would be readable
at the web-site currently being set up at the University of
Sarajevo, and that someone there would be interested in
converting the records into a form usable on ZTN. But there have
been delays in setting up the U. Sarajevo site. A promised
missing-persons conference and dummy user has not yet been set up
on ZTN.

So I have gone ahead and converted the records from the ICRC/BBC
site into a format that can be used on ZTN. This first list
consists of 415 individual records (52 KB). I an writing to offer
these records to anyone would like to receive them by email, for
possible distribution on ZTN or other use. 

I can immediately send the ICRC/BBC records, either in one big
file or as smaller files. Subsequently I will be able to send
updates of the ICRC/BBC records, and also the PFS/xs4all records.
The format will resemble this:


* AHMETOVIC (Mustafa) MEHMEDALIJA, b. 1956, last seen in
Srebrenica. Sought by Ahmetovic Sejdalija (Rue de Lindustrie 16,
2300 La Chaux De Fonds, Switzerland)
 
* AHMETAGIC NESIB, last seen in Sljivovica/FR Yugoslavia. Sought
by Ahmetagic Mirsad (B. Dzokovic 42, Podobarak, 73000 Gorazde, B
& H)

* AHMETOVIC HAMID, b. 1966, last seen in Kalesija. Sought by
Ahmetovic Gordana (Wandlitzstr. 15, 10318 Berlin, Germany)


I hope that a ZTN conference will be set up shortly so that these
records can be made generally available in the Balkans, and so
that I can send them to only one place, and in a systematic
manner. However, until that is done, I am willing to forward them
by private email to those who can use them.

There is also an email list (spe-pisma-l) where the records can
be made available to ZTN subscribers. I have not sent the records

to that list so far. If you would like to subscribe to the list,
and so get the records automatically, please send the message
SUBSCRIBE SPE-PISMA-L  to  MAJORDOMO@IGC.APC.ORG, or let me know
at PNBALKANS@IGC.APC.ORG

Subscribing to the list is probably the best way that people in
the .yu domain can obtain the records. If you do not get
confirmation of your subscription within a week or so, it means
that the .yu gateways have not been working; please resubmit your
request until it works, or send a note to SII indicating that you
have been having trouble. (I notice that mail from .yu seems to 
get to SII more often than to other places.)

We hope that making the missing-persons records openly available
on all the different systems, and the establishment of inter-
system protocols for handling them, will contribute to peace and
reconciliation in the Balkans. Best regards  --  Ed Agro, for PFS

_______
Ed Agro
Peacenet Balkans Desk, People Finder Service
pnbalkans@igc.apc.org