Gerjali: We're ready to go to Race, bone-finding ground is hard.

Kosovo Institute of Legal Medicine Director Arsim Gerjaliu in an interview for Telegrafi has said that five years have been expected for finding these mortore remains.

Gerjaliu stressed that they are awaiting an invitation from Serbia's institutions to continue their work.

According to him, the terrain where it is working for finding these remains is not easy, as he said remains of the mines were dumped.

We've been in a state of alert since that day... with Makcol as leader of the working group we've been together all day preparing in case of an immediate call to the location. So far we don't have any official information or an invitation to approach location. We don't know what the steps will be taken. From the moment the bone waste was found, the subject has been passed from the prosecutor to the judge under Serbia's laws. And we expect further experiences for them to announce even though they have it as a law to decide on their own. It's not easy to approach such an area. It is a very steep mountain country, and a mountain of mined waste has been created. Our goal was to get to point 0. On Monday we have encountered bone waste for a five-year-old job of”, Gerjaliu said.

He then added that it is not this only mine they have encountered in mortore waste.

This is not the first mine we're facing in it. Rudnica is a location where stones were thrown from nearby mines. Also at the location that we visited a month ago is the coal mine in Staffa, Sidnica, so we also applied as soon as possible to have that country examined”, the IML director said.

Gerjaliu claimed that relief has moved too much and is not a zero point, as it was 20 years ago.

He said that satellite images have enabled him to identify the location where mortar waste was found.

So we're actually doing a really good thing to do where normal relief is moving. Even if it was a relief of that time, it's hard over time to find the place because even the witness could forget it. But thanks to satellite images we've encountered in these mortore waste”, he said.

Asked how many mortore remains this case, and do they know which massacres they might be from, Gerjaliu said: “Numri doesn't talk because the number of expectations have never emerged. I'm talking about a thousand points in these 20 years. We need to be careful about disturbing the families of the dead. Our job as an expert is to give away the number of people we find based on anthropology. There'll be a lot of work. We don't know how many people this is about. We need to control the entire area until we know there are no mortore remains”.

As for the job of further discovery of the site for mortore waste, Gerjaliu said that from now on it must be handmade rather than heavy machinery.

“We need to work on hand tools rather than heavy machinery because the remains of” are damaged.

However, he also pointed out that work can be difficult because winter is approaching.

And we're in bad weather, because we're going through winter. We need to analyze whether it is worth entering and starting, since rainfall can also tear down the soil and cause even greater damage. We understand the concerns of family members, but we also need to understand”.

But whether the mortary remains are expected to be repatriated to Kosovo, he clarified: “After the withdrawal of the remnants, workers with co-ordination with the Serbian side will build a tendonier because it will be worked there and the autopsy will take place. We'll get sample samples for genetic profile. Since they are working in Serbia they will be sent to the Committee for Undiscovered Persons, when co-ordination is achieved then they will be repatriated to Kosovo”.