Netherlands Experts

Netherlands Experts: Academics and others meeting in The Hague to discuss the plight of missing people called on Friday for more to be done to tackle the problem, saying that would contribute to more stable societies around the world, according to 660 News. The conference was organized by the Sarajevo-based International Commission on Missing Persons ICMP , which was formed in 1996 to help trace and identify thousands of people who went missing during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. It has grown into a repository for expertise on using DNA to identify missing people and THE HAGUE, Netherlands Experts say the ranks of missing people are swelling around the world, including Muslim men murdered and dumped into mass graves in Bosnia, victims of Asias 2004 tsunami, people killed in Mexicos drug wars, and asylum seekers who drown as they flee conflicts in rickety boats. Professor Jeremy Sarkin, a member of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, told a three-day conference that peace will be threatened in nations emerging from armed conflict if issues relating to the missing continue to exist. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.