Excavations continue at Kizevac in Serbia, expected at other locations

So has made known about KosovaPress the head of the Office at the Government Commission for the Unattended, Concert Race.

He said that at this location he was focused on finding mass cemetery by 2015, where the first mortar remains were found. However, he has not wanted to provide details from the findings so far due to sensitivity for the family members of the missing persons.

And then tomorrow, and next week, Monday. Initially it was the exact accuracy of the mass cemetery in this location, then it continues with the necessary work, in terms of excavations, exhumation of mortore waste that will be found and there are other forensic procedures in the sense of further examinations and the sending of DNA analysis samples to the International Commission for Missing Persons. On November 16th of this year, it has been encountered in the early mortore remains, and after logistical preparations, from November 30th, it has continued its evaluations and certainly they will continue in the coming weeks, and it is a little early to talk about the number of victims that may be at this location. For the sake of the process, due to the sensitivity of the process and for the sake of family, we will be careful in interpreting statistical terms until all necessary forensic procedures are complete, Gara said.

The contest has said Kizhevac is the fifth mass cemetery on Serbia's territory, but there are several other locations which have been processed at the official request for Serbia's delegation and internationals that are part of this process, to see how it can be continued for excavations at these locations.

There is also a range of locations, now more marked on Serbia's territory, in this case in the Raska region and the Novi Pazar region, some of these locations are now visited as is the location near the Stavall mine near Sjenica or the location in Kozarela and other locations in the Raska region or in the Novi Pazar region. Part of those cases have been processed even more formal requests for Serbia's delegation, through the Kosovo delegation within the processing group. We are in communication even with international partners who are part of the process, to see how the outcome can be continued even at these locations, to develop the necessary assessment excavations, and then to see what the results will be”, Gara said.

While saying that early in December, Kosovo's delegation was present in Kizevac, Serbia, to convey the excavations that are under way.

Kosovo's “delegation has been on a visit realised on December 4th. In this case, the delegation is made up of the head of the Kosovo delegation under the Missing Persons Working Group, Ibrahim Makolli, the government leader for missing persons, but also Kosovo Prime Minister Rame Manaj's adviser, Law Medicine Institute Director Arsim Gerjaliu and Concert Gara. It is important to note that even Friday, but even during the entire week present at the location, in light of the work being done, there have been two forensic experts from the Republic of Kosovo, Musa Gashi and Driton Halitti”, Gara has said.

He has said that because of weather conditions, there is no exception to any eventual disruptions of excavations, but they will continue until it is managed to handle the entire area of the mass cemetery and exhumation of all major parts.

The Supreme Court's War Crimes Department in Belgrade on November 18th has issued a warrant for the exhumation of an unidentified number of corpses in a mass cemetery in Kryzevac in Rasca Town.

On 16 November, Pristina Law Medicine Institute Director Arsim Grxhaliu had confirmed that the mass cemetery in Krizevac allegedly contains the morto remains of Kosovo Albanians.

According to the Fund for Humanitarian Law based on UNMIK Office's Report on Missing Persons and Legal Medicine, which is also found at the Human Rights Initiative (YIHR) database, since 2001, mass cemetery in Serbia in four locations has been discovered with the bodies of 941 Albanians killed in Kosovo in 1999.

According to YIHR data, 744 Kosovo Albanian troops have been discovered in Batajnica near Belgrade since 2001, at Petrovo Selo in northeastern Serbia 61 troops, near Lake Perukac in western Serbia 84 troops, while the first remains in Rudnica's mass cemetery in southwest Serbia were found on 13 December 2013. Kosovo continues to have over 1,600 people whose fate is unknown nothing since the war period.