Excavations into the possible mass grave site in Krizhevak, Serbia are expected to begin on 23 March, confirmed the head of the Kosovo delegation for talks on missing persons, Ibrahim Makolli. “We still don’t know the details of how the process will be carried out,” said Makolli but according to the Director of the forensic department in Pristina, Arsim Gerxhaliu, at least two Kosovo doctors will be present at the excavations, as will a EULEX team.

President of the Association of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo and Metohija, Verica Tomanovic says that families are aware that the fate of their loved ones cannot be disclosed without the participation of EULEX and the Albanian institutions. She says that due to the passivity of EULEX and Albanian institutions there has been no progress in the search process over the past eleven years.

The Kosovo government's Commission for Missing Persons has urged Belgrade to open military and police archives to help find the location of mass graves. "The opening of these archives could lead us to the mass graves," said Prenk Gjetaj, President of the Commission for Missing Persons of the Government of Kosovo. Gjetaj added that the Commission intends to ask for help from the international community to obtain military satellite images that may also help in localizing mass graves.

President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjagamet yesterday the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) director for Europe Laurent Corbaz and the head of the mission in Kosovo Agim Gashi. In the meeting, Jahjaga expressed appreciation for the continued support that the ICRC has offered to the institutions of Kosovo and in particular for the assistance it has given to the Kosovo government’s commission for missing persons and for the intermediary role it has played in the meetings of the joint working groups of Kosovo and Serbia, to resolve the fate of the missing persons.

President of the Government Commission for Missing Persons Veljko Odalovic said he expected the continuation of the search of multiple locations for which there was information to contain the bodies of Serbs and non-Albanians killed during the armed conflict in Kosovo.

He also noted that there was no request from Pristina side which had not been met, for the search of locations in central Serbia, which might possibly contain the bodies of Kosovo Albanians and added that it will be so in the future.

A delegation of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons from Kosovo will meet on 7 September with the representatives of the Serbian Prosecution Office for War Crimes and discuss many difficult and painful issues, told president of the Association, Simo Spasic. "We have been waiting for this meeting for a long time ... We want to hear what the Prosecution has done so far and what to expect from the Special Court for crimes of the KLA," said Spasic.

The witness whose testimony could be valuable in solving war crimes from the 90s lives in Djakovica / Gjakove. He decided to entrust the secret to his former Serbian neighbors because he is very old and wants to tell the truth.  The witness is willing to cooperate, but insisted on anonymity. He also refused to have contact with Kosovo authorities, because he fears for the safety of his family.

On August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) regrets to observe that over 16 years no progress has been made in resolving the fate of the 1,711 missing persons in Kosovo, or in shedding light on the crimes and punishing the perpetrators, and appeals to the international institutions to help in this matter.

To mark the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the Association of Families of Missing Persons, Government Commission for Missing Persons and families of the victims today will begin with different activities in honor of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo. During a press conference today, the Commission laid out the agenda for four days, where they will visit various cemeteries and will meet with families of the missing persons.

Panels with photographs and names of more than 2,500 Serb civilian, military and police victims have been installed in front of the parliament building.

The campaign, dubbed "The Serb Wailing Wall," has been organized by the Association of the Families of Kidnapped and Murdered Persons in Kosovo and Metohija, and is aimed at convincing the city and the state to allocate a site to build a memorial for the victims.

The panels will be displayed in front of the Serbian assembly until July 15.