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‘Day of the Disappeared’ Commemorated Across Balkans (Balkan Insight)

By   /  31/08/2017  /  International  /  No Comments

Events to mark the International Day of the Disappeared in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia sought to raise awareness that 12,000 people are still missing from the 1990s wars. Flowers were laid and candles lit across the former Yugoslavia at events to commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared on Wednesday in a bid to […]

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O’Connell: Government should engage more on the fate of the missing (RTK)

By   /  30/08/2017  /  Articles from Kosovo media, Development/Humanitarian  /  No Comments

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Kosovo, Ruairi O’Connell, has requested on the International Day of the Disappeared, has requested to enlighten the fate of the missing persons in Kosovo. “On International Day of the Disappeared, I salute the courage, dignity and determination of families to find truth and justice. I feel their pain […]

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International Day of Missing Persons, gatherings in Gracanica and Pristina (Serbian media)

By   /  30/08/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

On the occasion of the International Day of Missing Persons, gatherings would be organized in Gracanica and Pristina today. As it was announced, gathering in Gracanica would start at 11.00, while in Pristina this day would be marked by laying flowers at the monument dedicated to the missing persons nearby the Kosovo Assembly. Milorad Trifunovic, […]

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Trifunovic: Politicians’ promises pouring salt to wounds (RTV Puls, KIM Radio)

By   /  28/08/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Politicians’ promises that the destiny of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo would be resolved and this issue would become a topic of the Brussels dialogue, is just pouring salt to the wounds, said Coordinator of Missing Persons Association in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic, RTV Puls reported. Commenting on the statement of the Kosovo […]

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Đurić: Today we remember all the missing (KIM radio)

By   /  21/08/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić recalled in a written statement to the press that 19 years ago, journalists Đuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenić disappeared near Orahovac/Rahovec, and the families still do not have any information about their fate, which is ”a big stain” of those who take care of the […]

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OHCHR: The missing in Kosovo receive renewed attention

By   /  15/08/2017  /  Development/Humanitarian  /  No Comments

It has been nearly 18 years since Natasa Scepanovic has seen her parents. The couple were living in Istok, a town in Kosovo*. After the war that ripped the area apart, Scepanovic’s parents, ethnic Serbians, remained in the town they had lived in, believing that the conflict was over and they were safe. They knew […]

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Search for missing persons underway in Gllareva village (Kosovapress)

By   /  07/08/2017  /  Articles from Kosovo media  /  No Comments

Excavations are underway in the village of Gllareva, Klina municipality, in an effort to determine the identity of human remains buried at the site. Kosovapress reports that forensic teams have already exhumed one body believed to be a victim of the 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo. According to Prenk Gjetaj, head of Kosovo government’s commission on […]

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Delawie with families of missing persons in Kosovo (KoSSev)

By   /  19/07/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

United States Ambassador to Pristina Greg Delawie yesterday visited the multi-ethnic Resource Center for Families of Missing Persons in Kosovo. In addition to a photo published with representatives of the Associations of Families of the Missing and Abducted, the US ambassador on his Twitter account stated that everyone must do more to support the efforts […]

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Anniversary of the kidnapping of Serbs in Orahovac/Rahovec marked (KIM radio, KoSSev, Politika)

By   /  19/07/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

In Velika Hoča, municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac yesterday was marked the suffering of Serbs of July 1998, when hundreds of Serbs and Roma were kidnapped in the municipality, Serbian media reported. At the memorial service for the victims and abductees in the municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac, was said that no one still was responsible for the suffering […]

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Association of Families of Missing Persons without great expectations (KIM Radio)

By   /  06/07/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Families of kidnapped and missing Serbs in Kosovo do not have too much expectation from the start of the Special Court’s work and indictments, Silvana Marinković from the Association of Families of the Missing Serbs told KIM radio. Distrust among family members of missing persons is the result of previous experience, says Marinković. “Whatever was […]

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“Stronger efforts to find missing persons” (Danas, KIM Radio)

By   /  30/06/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

Authorities in Belgrade and Pristina must undertake stronger efforts to shed light on the destiny of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo, International Committee of the Red Cross Committee warned at a round-table discussion in Geneva. The years are passing by, but the time does not ease the pain of the families. Many […]

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19 years since the kidnapping of miners in Kosovo (KIM radio)

By   /  23/06/2017  /  Serb. Monitoring  /  No Comments

The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Killed in Kosovo and Metohija marked the 19th anniversary of the kidnapping of nine miners of the Belaćevac mine in Kosovo in the memorial room for the Kosovo victims of the Belgrade Palace, KIM radio reported. Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić said […]

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