Court in Belgrade has ordered exhumation of mortar remains near Raska

This was confirmed for Radio Free Europe by the Supreme Court.

In response, the beginning of exhumation will be determined later, as will the commission that will conduct exhumation.

“also, a judicial expert has been appointed who will collect and provide traces of material found in the country during the preliminary investigation, in line with Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs report (MUP)”, the Court says.

According to the Court, the Interior Ministry has been instructed to make adequate security of the location, while other important actions will be determined by an additional order that will be issued later, given the current weather conditions, the year period and lack of detailed data.

The war crimes prosecutor in Belgrade told Radio Free Europe on November 17th that she was aware of the information that, at a location near Raska, mortore remains have been found, allegedly being of Albanian victims from Kosovo, and that “procedure is being passed into procedure by the War Crimes Department at the Belgrade Supreme Court”.

On November 16th, Institute of Legal Medicine Director Arsim Grxhaliu had confirmed to Radio Free Europe that in the mass cemetery in Krizevac, the morto remains of Kosovo Albanians are suspected.

The chairman of the Government Commission for Missing Persons in Serbia, Veljko Odrekovic, has said on Wednesday evening that, according to data, in the mass cemetery in Kizevac near Raska are potentially morto remains of fifteen to seventeen troops.

Based on data published by the nongovernmental Fund for Humanitarian Law, based on UNMIK Office's report on Missing Persons and Legal Medicine, which are also found at the organisation's database Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), since 2001, mass cemeteries have been discovered on Serbia's territory in four locations with the bodies of 941 Albanians killed in Kosovo in 1999.

According to YIHR data, on its ratusrija.rs website, in Batajnica near Belgrade since 2001 744 Kosovo Albanian troops have been discovered; at Petrovo Selo in northeastern Serbia at least 61 troops; near Lake Perukac in Western Serbia 84 troops, while the first remains in Rudnica mass cemetery in southwestern Serbia were found on 13 December 2013.

Kosovo continues to have 1,643 people, whose fate knows nothing since 1998-99.