CCPR/C/112/D/1966/2010 6.2 As regards the argument of the authors that they have received no information about the status of the case of their husband and father, the State party states that the central database of all pending war crimes cases provided for in the national war crimes prosecution strategy is now functioning. The State party refers to the proceedings under way against Drago Radosavljević and 10 other suspects for war crimes against civilians under article142 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It indicates that “in September, the Prosecutor’s Office will give an order to the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs, Department for War Crimes, for the collection of information and evidence in this case, i.e. hearing of witnesses, family members of the missing, about what they know about the illegal abduction and disappearance of civilians from the municipality of Vogošća”.15 6.3 In its submission dated 6 October 2011, the State party also sent a letter from the mayor of Centar municipality stating that the name of Sejad Hero does not appear in their official records. Additional information submitted by the authors 7.1 On 14 and 21 October 2011, 23 January 2012 and 23 July 2013, the authors sent comments related to the State party’s observations dated 12 September 2011, 6 October 2011 and 21 October 2012. Reiterating their initial submission, the authors consider that the only new information included in the additional replies of the State party is the reference to the order that the Prosecutor’s Office intended to give to the Department of War Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in September for the collection of information and evidence in the case of the illegal abduction and disappearance of civilians from the municipality of Vogošća. The authors insist on their availability and willingness to be called to give their testimony before the Department of War Crimes and to be kept informed of the proceedings. 7.2 The authors further state that, on 11 October 2011, the Association of Relatives of Missing Persons from Vogošća sent a letter to the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office enquiring as to whether the order referred to by the State party had been issued by the Prosecutor’s Office and, if so, what activities had been carried out so far. The letter also reiterates that it is of utmost importance that the case is dealt with pursuant to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina of 2003, and not to the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which does not include provisions for crimes against humanity and the crime of enforced disappearance. In that regard, the authors refer to the report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances on its mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (A/HRC/16/48/Add.1, para. 57), in which it emphasized that enforced disappearance being a continuous crime, it could be punished on the basis of an ex post legislation without violating the principle of non-retroactivity, for as long as the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person has not been clarified. 7.3 In their further submission, dated 23 July 2013, , the authors state that on 24 May 2013, Tija Hero received a letter from the International Committee of the Red Cross informing her that all data concerning her missing husband had been transferred to the Missing Persons Institute, in conformity with the Law on Missing Persons. The authors further state that, in April 2013, the mortal remains of a person were exhumed in Tihovići, where Sejad Hero went missing. The authors heard a rumour that the remains could be those of Sejad Hero and that identification could take place in early June 2013. They have nonetheless not been contacted or kept informed by the State party. Tija Hero argues that this situation has 15 Letter from the Cantonal Prosecutor’s Office of Sarajevo Canton, dated 16 August 2011, annexed to the documentation provided by the State party on 12 September 2011. 11