Odalovic: ”Excellent cooperation with EULEX and KFOR in the exhumation and in finding additional evidence in this case” (Vesti)
In the village of Piskote near Djakovica, at least three people have been exhumed, and further investigation will determine whether there are still bodies buried in this place. According to the Vesti portal, the President of the Commission for missing of the Government of Serbia, Veljko Odalovic, also confirmed this information and said that most […]
Read More →Mortal remains discovered near Djakovica (Vecernje Novosti)
Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reported today that the mortal remains of persons most probably kidnapped in 1998 and 1999 are discovered near Djakovica town. Remains of three persons were discovered in a location assumed to be a mass grave last week. It is believed the remains belong to the Serbs kidnapped in 1998 and 1999, […]
Read More →Association of families of kidnapped: Vucic, freeze the dialogue (RTS)
The Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Killed in Kosovo and Metohija through the announcement proposed to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to freeze the dialogue in Brussels and publicly request the KLA Special Criminal Court to begin its work in order to prosecute and convict the leaders of the KLA because of the command […]
Read More →EULEX asked to step up pressure on Serbia regarding missing persons (Telegrafi/Koha)
Advisor to Prime Minister of Kosovo on missing persons, Jahja Lluka, met today officials from the Kosovo’s Forensic Institute and also discussed their presence in the process for determining the fate of missing persons. Director of the institute, Arsim Gerxhaliu, and EULEX forensic anthropologist, Tarja Formisto, spoke about their joint work while Lluka expressed the […]
Read More →We have witnesses and evidence of KLA crimes (KIM radio)
There are evidences of KLA crimes, false are the claims that there are no witnesses, eyewitnesses of the crimes, claim members of families of kidnapped and killed in Kosovo, reports KIM radio. “We have footage of camps with detained Serbs and members of the KLA who managed these camps, photographs, and witnesses who were the […]
Read More →Kosovo prosecutor speaks in Belgrade about missing persons (Koha)
Kosovo prosecutor, Drita Hajdari, spoke at a Belgrade conference about Kosovo’s missing persons and noted that their fate continues to keep many families hostage. “It is a legal obligation and a fundamental human right for families to learn about the fate of their missing members. After the signing of the peace deal, warring parties should […]
Read More →Discovering fate of missing “among top priorities” (B92)
Discovering the fate of the missing persons is an issue to which Serbia attaches great importance. This is according to a statement of the Foreign Ministry, published after a meeting in Belgrade on Tuesday between First Deputy PM and Foreign Ivica Dacic and Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross Yves Daccord. Daccord […]
Read More →Suvi Do/Suhodoll: The search of remains of missing persons in Suvi Do launched (Kim Radio, Kossev)
KIM radio and portal KoSSev reported that in the village of Suvi Do/Suhodoll in North Mitrovica started yesterday the search of the remains of missing persons during the Kosovo conflict. The media reported that so far excavations have been carried out three times in that location and that the remains of 105 bodies have been […]
Read More →Haradinaj: More work required on the missing persons (Koha)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, held today a meeting with the Government Committee for the Missing Persons and Kosovo organisations that deal with the issue of the missing persons. Haradinaj said that the intention of the meeting is unification of all individuals who are involved on the issue of the missing persons, in […]
Read More →The Serbian Association not invited to a meeting with Haradinaj on the issue of the missing (KiM radio)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj will meet today with representatives of the government’s Missing Persons Commission and organizations that are dealing with the issue of missing persons in Kosovo. Representatives of the Serbian Association of Families of the Abducted and Missing Persons are not invited to this meeting. The invitation of the Government of Kosovo […]
Read More →“This year two Serbian families took over exhumed bodies in Kosovo” (BETA, KIM Radio)
Chair of the Serbian Government Missing Persons Commission, Veljko Odalovic, stated that this year, only two Serb families took over the bodies exhumed in Kosovo, KIM Radio reported. Odalovic also stated to BETA news agency there are no exhumations in Kosovo at the moment and the question remains whether activities would continue by the end […]
Read More →Suspected Kosovo War Victim Exhumed in Albania (Balkan Insight)
The Pristina authorities exhumed the body of an unidentified person in an Albanian village near the border with Kosovo, believed to have been buried there during the war 1999. Kosovo’s Institute of Forensic Medicine together with the EU rule-of-law mission EULEX, under the supervision of Kosovo’s war crimes prosecutor Drita Hajdari, exhumed an unidentified person’s […]
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