This interview is first detailed description of Srebrenica case, based on evidences presented in Hague tribunal, during the trial of general Ratko Mladic.

Mr Pavlović expertise relies on 5.5 years experience in the highest operational missing persons position in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) as the Head of the Department for Tracing, Exhumation and Identifications and in the Department of the Central Records of Missing Persons in the B&H Missing Persons Institute.

Within the Head position of that Department for almost 4.5 years he managed the process of searching, excavations and identifying missing persons in B&H, including all individuals listed as missing in connection with Srebrenica in July 1995.

The Department’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Intelligence work and research of the circumstances of disappearance through field work by investigators and collaboration with intelligence and public security agencies;
- Tracing/checking/marking locations of individual and mass graves, as well as participating in excavations/exhumations;
- Participating in autopsies, forensic examinations, anthropological remakes, and identifications, using applicable DNA methods;
- Conducting final identifications, including all activities up to presenting the body to the family;
- Cooperating with the competent national/international bodies and institutions involved in the process of tracing missing persons, including the prosecutor's office, courts, police, judicial investigative agencies, forensic agencies (primarily judicial medical doctors/anthropologists but others as needed), intelligence agencies.

Srebrenica
reconstruction
war
Republic of Srpska
Bosnia and Herzegovina

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