Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) has written an open letter to head of EULEX Gabriele Meucci expressing deep concern over, as it said, the mistreatment of the citizens of Krusha e Vogel, primarily women, by EULEX in exhuming several bodies from the village cemetery. KWN reminded EULEX that the women of Krusha e Vogel have been deeply affected by the war as on 26 March 1999, 113 men and boys disappeared or were killed by Serbian forces. To date, only 45 have been found and buried and the village still awaits learning about the fate of 68 others. On 25 August 2015, representatives of the EULEX mission exhumed several bodies from the cemetery and the process through which remains were exhumed was completely inappropriate and insensitive to the families and village members, claims Kosovo Women Network based on the accounts of the village leader Shpresa Shehu. “Only one person from the Hajdari family was informed that EULEX would come, and this information was provided only one night before EULEX’s arrival. Further, EULEX came under the false pretext that it would only verify information and reunite bones that had been separated. Instead, the Department of Legal Medicine and EULEX began the exhumation of three brothers killed in the massacre of 26 March 1999: Nazim and Rasim Hajdari who had been buried on 26 March 2007; and Selajdini Hajdari who had been buried on 26 March 2009. All three brothers had supposedly been identified via DNA analysis by forensic experts. Notably, the brothers were buried on the same day in different years, as every year the citizens have a memorial in which they bury additional loved ones (as remains are slowly returned to them. Since they still have not received the bodies of all of their loved ones, each year they must mourn again their losses, is in itself very traumatic,” the letter sent to EULEX chief reads.