Gerjali: It is difficult to talk to Serbian side about found

Legal Medicine Institute General Director Arsim Gerjaliu, in an interview for Online Economics, has said they constantly apply to Serbia for the missing, but according to him, discussing with the Serbian side is very difficult.

He said there are several locations where Serbia knows where the undiscovered may be, but so far communication with them according to Gerjaliu has been difficult. He has cited the case of Professor Uksin Hoti and many others for whom Kosovo has sought answers from Serbia.

The “constantly becomes the pressure, but we have to deal with a state that maybe even the International Community has little more difficult to influence in the state of Serbia, we have constantly made demands. If we take the case of Professor Ukshin Hott from 2004 at each meeting we submit requests to many others and many locations that we have some information about that we actually know that maybe the other side knows the locations, but it's not easy to discuss with the Serbian side”, Gerjaliu.

Gerjaliu has said that all ordinancees coming from the war crimes prosecution, the institute immediately tries to implement them. He said that the intensity of jobs has recently increased as the winter season makes work even harder.

We have three weeks after the 12 commands that have come and we're implementing them, we've opened over eight locations and used this time. If any new warrants arrive, it's up to the police investigator to propose to the prosecutor and we're going out immediately, but the goal was to keep these commands from getting to winter because when temperatures start minus and freezing the ground then it's impossible for us to go out and work until spring”, Gerjaliu said.

Gerjaliu has also spoken of the difficulties the Institute has, where he said that to achieve greater success and to identify more victims requires additional tools on the ground and other equipment.

Over this period it has not been easy to work, the very fact that we have learned from most experts who have been international, on the other hand, it has also been necessary for us to make more investment in human schooling, from me to the last staff. We're dealing with the unusual nature of the work, because it needs additional tools on the ground and it's a very big job that then ends up at the autopsy table, whether it's war cases, or fresh cases that we have in our daily”, he said.

Gerjaliu has also spoken of the corpse, which was found in the village of Planey, of the Prizren municipality, which belongs to the recent war in Kosovo.

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Gerjaliu says that compared to countries in the region, Kosovo, according to statistics, has managed to identify mostly missing victims.

“In terms of identification, we're almost the best in the former Yugoslavia because Croatia has started with an estimated number like Kosovo somewhere around 6 thousand and 400 people and started 5-6 years ago with this process. We've started with the same number as 6400-6,500 missing in 99, and today we're with 1648 still missing”, Gerjaliu said of Online Economics.