CCPR/C/115/D/2064/2011 Additional submissions by the parties 6.1 On 16 and 20 December 2011, the State party transmitted letters from different institutions reiterating the information provided in the previous submission.18 It further indicates that the Ministry of the Interior of the Republika Srpska informed the Missing Persons Institute on 13 October 2011 that it has found that the body of Božo Mandić had been buried by Blagoje Pešić, who was residing in Montenegro. The State party provided a document from the Ministry of the Interior dated 13 October 2011 indicating that Mr. Pešić had provided a statement to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) in Montenegro stating that after Božo Mandić and his wife had been taken from their house by the “Muslim army”; Božo Mandić was taken to Nedžarići, where he was released and was supposed to cross into Serbian territory, but instead he was killed by the “Muslim army”. Mr. Pešić found his body the next day and buried it immediately. Mr. Pešić was not able to provide the exact location of the burial but indicated that it was in the main road from Sarajevo to Dobrinja and that he was willing to assist in the location of Božo Mandić’s remains. 6.2 On 17 February 2012, the author provided comments to the State party’s observations. He states that on 16 January 2012, Mr. Pešić was brought to the location he indicated as being the place where he had buried Božo Mandić. He was accompanied by the author, representatives of the State Investigation and Protection Agency, the Missing Persons Institute, the International Commission on Missing Persons and TRIAL. He indicated a location and then made a statement which was forwarded to the Office of the Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 23 January 2012, the Office issued an order for an exhumation.19 The author welcomed Mr. Pešić’s declarations and requested the State party to organize the necessary actions to explore the location and excavate the spot. He recalled that, as he had already indicated to the authorities, there was a possibility that the mortal remains of his father had already been exhumed and might be buried as N.N. in the Visoko cemetery.20 The author expressed concern that no action had been taken in this regard. 6.3 The author further expresses dissatisfaction regarding the Bosnian authorities’ handling of his case as, on 13 December 2011, he received a letter from the State Investigation and Protection Agency stating that the Cantonal Prosecutor of Sarajevo had re-exhumed two bodies in Visoko on 29 March 2007 and that the DNA of one of them matched his father’s. The author claims that this caused him great distress.. On 17 December 2011, he sent letters to the International Commission and to the Missing Persons Institute asking for clarifications. On 19 December 2011, he requested to speak with someone in the Agency, with no success. He then issued a press release, following which he was received by two officials who informed him that unfortunately, the letter had been a mistake because the DNA results had not been positive, but negative. They presented their excuses to the author. The author was in a state of shock as he felt that the authorities had not taken his queries and the investigation of his father’s case seriously. On 21 and 26 December 2011, he received replies from the International Commission and the Institute respectively, indicating that they had never issued a report on a match of his father’s DNA. 6.4 The author further submits that on 16 November 2011, he received a letter from the Constitutional Court in response to his letter of 25 October 2011, stating that its decision in 18 19 20 10 Letter dated 29 December 2011 from the Office of the Cantonal Prosecutor of Sarajevo to the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees; letter dated 1 December 2011 from the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees to the Ministry of Justice; letter dated 1 December 2011 from the Missing Persons Institute to the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees; two letters dated 13 October 2011 from the Ministry of the Interior of the Republika Srpska to the Institute. See para. 6.7. See paras. 2.3-2.6 and note 6.