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. no representatives from the republic of croatia's office for missing persons were present at the exhumation. savo štrbac, director of the veritas information center, claimed the number of children found seemed to vastly exceed the number of children actually reported as missing from sijekovac. , veritas listed 22 serb children missing from the vukovar hospital in 1992. tomo aračić, 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. the presiding officer of the fbih commission for missing persons, marko jurišić, claimed the identities of the majority of the bodies were unknown and that only analysis by forensic experts could determine such details.