One thousand and 650 people still missing in Kosovo

Even after the 19 years of the end of the war in Kosovo, numerous families continue to be waiting for their loved ones.

There are currently 1650 missing persons whose fate is not yet known.

In a proposal for Indexline, the chairman of the Government Commission for Ungenerated Persons, Prenk Lotj says the Government through competent mechanisms is continuing with commitment and attempting families to learn as soon as possible about the fate of their loved ones.

There are also 1650 missing persons. The government of the Republic of Kosovo, through competent mechanisms, is continuing with commitment and trying for families to learn as soon as possible about the fate of their loved ones”, Keraj has said.

Furthermore, it has added that they expect soon even excavations in Serbia will start, with the support of the International Community.

We have now started with works at various locations in Kosovo, we expect that with the support of the International Community to begin excavations at locations even in Serbia. Soon we will also begin with the fulfillments of Law”, he has added.

On the other hand, Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has pledged that the Kosovo government will not stop looking for troops of missing persons during the 1998-99 war and that the Serbian state, as he has said, must respond and answer to that.

Haradinaj, under whose auspices is organised “Java of the Ungenerous”, has said the wounds of the recent war cannot be closed and there can be no lasting peace without the full enlightenment of war truth in Kosovo.

The weeks of the dead weigh us down and bring us suffering and pain for thousands of citizens whose fate has not yet turned nineteen years after the war. I wish you would have the strength, courage and look forward. To be together and to face this topic, which is the most painful of Kosovo's war plague”, Haradinaj has said.

While representatives of Kosovo institutions and family members of missing persons have asked local and international authorities to pressure Serbia to resolve this problem.

Bajram Korkin, chairman of the Co-ordination Council of the Associations of Family of Undiscovered Persons, has said Serbia knows where the bodies of undiscovered persons are located.