About 300 dead bodies in Pristina morgue, no one knows their identity

But, most of these mortore remains are of persons who do not connect with the last war, but are currently in Pristina's morgue. There are bodies of newborn babies in the morgue, but even foreign citizens who have died in various ways since the postwar, but who have never asked. The latter will be buried in a location that the Pristina municipality has divided near the cemetery in Dragodan.

But in these cemeteryes there will be no burial of mortar remains left over from the last war.

Legal Medicine Department head Arsim Gerjaliu has told Kosova Preis that because of the overload of refrigerators with mortore waste, it is the cases of foreign citizens, fetuses, newborns and cases which family do not want to take, those that will be buried to release space in refrigerators so that space can be created for new works expected to begin in the field soon.

He stressed that they have made sure that their burial is done with special care, so that if something new comes up after DNA tests, these remains can be exhumed and given to the family.

We'll be careful what cases we'll send to the common cemetery. They will be buried with codes. It also makes the filter of mistakes, which means it'll be with the high metal plate as well as the metal piece that they have in the sacs that we use. Just if something new comes up, after DNA tests, and they connect to cases that are in the interest of the Law Medicine Institute, they'll be exhumed and handed over to the family”, he explained.

Gerjaliu said the mortore remains of the last war would hold because they have remained open issues and that a strategy from the government will soon emerge concerning access to them. And the head of The Hague Department of Legal Medicine points out that the problem in itself over 100 families who haven't yet given blood have been the way to work The Hague Tribunal originally, the lack of interest in the family of the dead, as well as the fact that there are over 100 families who have not yet given blood, and for which he feels it should be seen the way to get access to them so that the matter can be cleared.

“until 2002 has worked The Hague Tributal, which worked in classical methods without those of DNA. Then we have the UNMIK phase, and recently the EULEX, which actually foreign experts have made a relatively good cleanup of waste, which has been to say not to nearly 500 mortore remains and which have been sent for DNA analysis. But the tests we have now do not match the blood giver, which are at least 3 members. We have about 2,000 and 900 families that gave blood. We also have over 100 families that don't give blood, which should be seen to find a way of access to those family so that we can clear the case”, Gerjaliu said.

It has also become known Thursday where the morto remains of people who died and nobody gets buried. This was done at the request of the Government Commission for Undiscovered Persons to release the morgue space because there are no more places.

The reason for this action the Commission has taken has explained to Jahja Luka, who is also carrying the folder for missing persons in the Government of Kosovo. Luka has said on Thursday that family members of the deceased are reluctant to take them in to bury, as he said, “the suspicious activity of their families”. “Once the Pristina morgue is overloaded with mortore waste, we and the Institute of Legal Medicine have come to an end that is good for all those people to have a grave. There are people in Pristina's morgue who have different backgrounds from many countries, but also from many cities in Kosovo... there are times when family members don't want to receive the necessary remains of their family because they have been accomplices to the occupier, we have cases of some people who are foreign citizens and nobody cares about them”, Luka said.

Luka also pointed out that the divided space will be for those who are not missing and have not been part of war, and if a family member appears, they will be given an opportunity to take their relatives. In Kosovo currently there are 1652 persons who figure missing in the 1999 war and belong to all ethnic affiliations.