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A missing is a situation, with which the fate of a person and their stay are not well-known or uncertain. This can in the context of special events (like war, driving, disasters out) or due to individual motives happen. Without one of these special causes one speaks of disappearance. One differentiates war and civilian missed ones, whereby among the war-missed only the members of armed forces rank, with which is thus unknown whether they are fallen, were blown up or taken imprisoned.
The person concerned is called missed (r) and with missing due to martial actions of missing persons.
A condition for a case of a missing person in the police sense are at the German police in accordance with police regulation 389 ("missed one, unknown dead ones, unknown helpless persons "):
A message of a case of a missing person (missing announcement) takes place with the security police, which employs extensive determinations and searches with the help of kriminalistischer methods. The measures cover thus among other things
The responsible organizational unit is usually called VUT (missed one, unknown dead ones).
Perhaps these measures can exhibit the right nature of a doublefunctional measure, i.e. they aim due to their uncertainty both at the danger warning and at the prosecution.
A missing can lead among other things in the end that the person of a criminal offence is fallen to the victim (e.g. murder, kidnapping), in shank is, a criminal offence committed and is volatile, probably is (e.g. Aussteiger), a natural death died or verschollen is.
A further reason can be that the missed person is fallen in military conflicts.
A missing announcement can everyone with each police station refund.
The largest event in recent time, due to whose also Central European persons became missed one, was on 26 December 2004 sea-quake with the tsunami (Tsunamis) in the Indian ocean, released thereby. In connection with the disaster occasionally over 1.000 German citizens, mainly holiday-makers at the coasts of Thailand, India and Sri Lankas were missed. Still another one year later - after the identification of over 500 corpses and adjusting the missing messages - amounts the number of the missed ones to 15 persons (December 2005).
While the prisoners of war of the Second World War became to dismiss from the camps of the western allied ones relatively soon and also during the shank contact with their members had, there was predominantly missed, who were over many years in Soviet shank, of whom one nothing about its whereabouts knew. Thus many Austrians became released only at the time of conclusion of the state contract from the USSR.
The international committee of the red cross (IKRK) and a set of national red cross and red half moon companies operate search services, which can exhibit successes also still after decades, particularly after opening of different archives, with clarifying of missing fates, although usually only points of time of death or - locate. Also after decades still survivors are found only rare.
With the German Red Cross search service today daily of it still several are received to missed one from the Second World War up to twenty retrieval queries. From this war apply this very day 1.3 million fates inexplicably, although by the opening of Soviet archives since 1991 200,000 cases could be clarified and also today still on the day three to four member of war-conditioned separation are again united. It is counted on one million of finally fates of the Second World War.
Clarifying particularly of war missing fates of the Second World War is one of the tasks of the German agency (WASt) for the notification of the next members of pleasures of the former German armed forces ''.
From the Yugoslavia war there are today 21,000 missed.
In former times safe identifying of war and disaster victims was not easily possible. With soldiers this was done often only via the knowing mark, which the soldiers had to always carry and on the names and personnel index were in-punched. These marks are also today usual with many military. So corpses also many years could be still identified after their death by comparison with the existing card indices. A further possibility is also a system used within the civilian range, which is based on the investigation of dentures (tooth status). Today an DNA alignment is accomplished to a large extent.
Apart from the psychological consequences with the members missing arise also often legal difficulties, which can to drag on over years and be able also for the survivors to be existence-endangering. Up to a declaration of death pension payments can be refused. Also inheritances often cannot be completed.
In addition, with re-find missing after a declaration of death can come it to reclaims of inheritances. Particularly after the war emerged missed at one time, when the alleged widow was already again married.
MISSING in Action (MIA) is in the angloamerikanischen linguistic usage the status designation for a soldier, who is fallen in the fight probably or one misses, over the whose whereabouts however no further information admits is.
The abbreviation MIA finds apart from the abbreviations WIA (Wounded in Action), POW (Prisoner OF of being prisoners of war) and KIA (Killed in Action) frequently in casualty lists of angloamerikanischer armed forces use.
"MISSING in Action" is also the name of an American Actionfilms of 1984, in which leading actor Chuck Norris in Rambo manners frees American prisoners of war in Viet Nam.
"Missing" of children
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