CCPR/C/114/D/2143/2012 containing a list of men who had been captured by the Vojska Republike Srpske,5 including Mr. Dovadžija. The document also indicated that Mr. Dovadžija had been “wounded in Blažuj”. 2.6 Ms. Dovadžija took the list to the army barracks, but obtained no further information. She tried to obtain some material support from the municipality of Breza. The employees in charge of social matters recommended that she stop searching for her husband, as she risked being killed. 2.7 While staying in Breza, Ms. Dovadžija met with two eyewitnesses, Husnija Šehić and Bego Selimović, who had been exchanged with Serb prisoners. They told her that they had been captured with her husband and that, together with him, they had been subjected to ill-treatment and forced labour while being held in the detention facilities at Podlugovi and Planinja Kuća in Semizovac. They stated that they had been used as human shields at the front line in Žuć and that they had last seen Mr. Dovadžija in October 1992. They told her that her husband was in the hands of the Vojska Republike Srpske, had been taken from the camp in Planinja Kuća and had never been seen again. 2.8 In 1993, Ms. Dovadžija reported her husband’s enforced disappearance to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Zenica. Mr. Dovadžija remains registered on the ICRC files as a missing person “unaccounted for” since October 1992. Before 1999, Ms. Dovadžija filled in an ante-mortem questionnaire through ICRC and the Red Cross of Bosnia and Herzegovina to facilitate the process of identifying mortal remains exhumed by local forensic experts. Ms. Dovadžija also gave DNA samples, to no avail. 2.9 In May 1996, the first exhumations took place in Žuć. During a radio broadcast in Illijaš, all those who had a missing family member who could have been killed in Žuć were invited to go to the Visoko facility for identification. Ms. Dovadžija went there and was convinced that she could identify the body of her husband from a piece of blue cloth, a jar and the shape of his head and nose. However, when she informed the staff at the Visoko facility, she was told that the same body had already been identified by another person. Ms. Dovadžija requested that the body not be buried until its true identity could be established using reliable technical methods. However, when she returned to Visoko to take further steps to identify the remains, the corpse had already been buried and she has never been able to locate it. 2.10 The fate and whereabouts of Mr. Dovadžija remain unknown and he is officially registered as a missing person. To date, no one has been judged and punished for his enforced disappearance and his family has not obtained compensation or any other form of reparation. The authors have not even been considered eligible for the so-called “disability pension” as social support. As Ms. Dovadžija has always been deeply offended by the accusation that her husband deserted the army, she took several steps to have him recognized as a veteran. Despite eyewitness testimonies that Mr. Dovadžija did not desert the army, but was arbitrarily detained by the Vojska Republike Srpske, his status as a veteran has never been recognized. 2.11 On 19 July 2002, Municipal Court I in Sarajevo declared that Mr. Dovadžija had died on about 25 July 1992, despite the fact that Ms. Dovadžija has always clearly stated that she saw him for the last time in August 1992, and that eyewitnesses had seen him alive in October 1992. In the spring of 2007, Ms. Dovadžija reported her husband’s enforced disappearance to the Federal Commission on Missing Persons. 5 4 The authors submitted the list as one of the documents annexed to their complaint.