Sixteen years after the end of the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia thirty thousand humans, who simply vanished into mid-air, are still missing. The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) in Sarajevo has been working non-stop, ever since 1996, with the intent of identifying the missing persons who disappeared during the armed conflicts, thus contributing to the development of an appropriate commemoration of the victims: by giving them back their names in remembrance of the genocide and allowing their families to mourn their own dead at a decent graveside. In the last year 775 human remains have been identified and on July 11th 2010, 15 years after the fall of Srebrenica, all those bodies were given back to their relatives. This is life in Bosnia now, in the black and white of frozen emotions, a transition still present between past and future. Cerska, Bosnia Herzegovina 2009. Two survivors from a massacre which took part during the ex-Yugoslavian War. The older woman has lost her entire family as her children, who out-lived the mass-murders, now live in Switzerland: she has not seen them since the conflict. Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina 2009. A wrist-watch discovered in a mass grave. The personal effects found next to human remains are catalogued and made available for identification for relatives of the victims. Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina 2009. A woman pushes an elevator trolley in order to store a corpse in a refrigerator unit. There are thousands of human remains catalogued in the PIP at Tuzla. Srebrenica (Srpska Republic), Bosnia Herzegovina 2010. In accordance with the Muslim ritual, the 775 bodies identified last year by the International commission of missing persons, are transported bodily by the victim's relatives. Srebrenica (Srpska Republic), Bosnia Herzegovina 2010. In accordance with the Muslim ritual, the 775 bodies identified last year by the International commission of missing persons, are transported bodily by the victim's relatives while a kid is looking at the scene.
