On the International Human Rights Day 2024, the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), with the support of the Government of the United Kingdom, launched the Regional Database of Active Missing Persons Cases from the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The launch of the database was attended by the families of the missing, the media, and the public.
The Levantine island of Cyprus and the Balkan nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are not, for most, two places thought of as sharing a common history. For me however, as a Cypriot genocide researcher whose work focuses on the 1990s war in Bosnia, I have never stopped drawing parallels between these two 'post-conflict' spaces.