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Hrvatski predsjednik [[Ivo Josipović]] i premijer Republike Srpske [[Milorad Dodik]] posjetili su 2010. groblje žrtava kako bi im odali počast. <ref name="Josipović u Sijekovcu"/> Josipović je zbog svoje geste, kojom je s hrvatske strane prvi put implicitno priznata mogućnost da se uistinu zbio pokolj civila, postao predmetom žestoke kritike iz hrvatskih desničarskih i nacionalističkih krugova.
In 2004, Federal Commission for Tracing Missing persons started exhumations near [[Bosanski Brod]], due to a suspicion that a number of [[Bosniaks|Bosniak]] victims were buried in the location which is actually a Bosniak graveyard. A report mentions the possibility of an illegal trade with human organs, given the victims were found for the most part naked.<ref name="nato-nn-2004">{{cite web
| url = http://www.nato.int/sfor/media/2004/ms040811.htm
| title = EXHUMATIONS - Most victims suspected to be civilians from Vukovar
| author = [[Nezavisne novine]]
| work = [[SFOR]] Main News Summary
| publisher = [[NATO]]
| date = 2004-08-11
| accessdate = 2010-06-02
}}</ref> Judge of the Zenica-Doboj Court from [[Zenica]], Enisa Adrović, noted the [[exhumation]]s had taken 14 days, and that the victims were for the most part Serb civilians. The exhumation recovered 59 corpses and was done under the supervision of [[International Commission on Missing Persons|Federation Commission for Missing Persons]]. The first 8 bodies found had personal objects (cloths, T-shirt, a belt, buttons, spectacles), yet the remaining 49 bodies had no objects that could help in their identification. Among them there were 18 bodies of children.<ref name="nato-nn-2004"/>
Several exhumation officials initially suspected that most victims were civilians from [[Vukovar]], including Goran Krcmar, a member of the Republika Srpska Office for Missing Persons and the District Prosecutor of Doboj, Slavko Krulj, who referenced the Veritas Information Center.<ref name="nato-nn-2004"/> But, these assumptions were subsequently refuted. No representatives from the Republic of Croatia's Office for Missing Persons were present at the exhumation.<ref name="nato-nn-2004"/> Savo Štrbac, Director of the Veritas Information Center, noted that the number of children found seemed to vastly exceed the amount of children actually reported as missing from Sijekovac.<ref name="nato-nnos-2004">{{cite web
| url = http://www.nato.int/sfor/media/2004/ms040812t.htm
| title = EXHUMATIONS - Exhumation of mass grave at Sijekovac completed, 59 bodies found
| author = [[Nezavisne novine]] and [[Oslobođenje]]
| work = [[SFOR]] Main News Summary
| publisher = [[NATO]]
| date = 2004-08-12
| accessdate = 2010-06-02
}}</ref> Tomo Aračić, the president of ''Udruženje '92'', the organization that initiated the exhumation in the first place, said that they had no actual information about any Vukovar children at Sijekovac.<ref name="vjesnik">{{cite news
| url = http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/2004/08/13/Clanak.asp?r=van&c=1
| title = Djeca iskopana iz grobnice u Sijekovcu nisu iz Vukovara
| newspaper = [[Vjesnik]]
| language = Croatian
| date = 2004-08-13
| accessdate = 2009-05-01
| last = Garmaz
| first = Željko
| coauthors = Matkić, Zoran}}</ref> The presiding officer of the Federal Commission for Missing Persons Marko Jurišić also stated unequivocally that the identities of the majority of the bodies were unknown and that they only analysis from forensic medicine experts could determine that.<ref name="vjesnik"/>
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