The intention of this paper is to describe the organizational principl
es and indicate the results already achieved in the identification of
war victims in Croatia. By 25 February 1993, 6,493 victims had been id
entified. A model is proposed that could be used in the course of iden
tification processes, examining the methods and principles of identifi
cation which have been complicated by the time interval of more than a
year from the time of death, for a presumed number of several thousan
d (up to 14,000) unidentified victims, possibly in mass graves. Identi
fication is further complicated by the lack of ante-mortem medical and
dental records and the incapacity to utilize more expensive methods o
f identification. Attention is drawn to a group of more complex cases
examined at the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology.