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Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Up to 20 found persons could be identified if their family gave blood samples. So said Deputy Director of the Kosovo Law Medicine Institute and EULEX expert Tarja Formisto, who has stressed that one of the problems faced during the process of identifying mortor remains is the fact [...]
Up to 20 found persons could be identified if their family gave blood samples.
So said Deputy Director of the Kosovo Institute of Legal Medicine and EULEX expert Tarja Formisto, who has stressed that one of the problems faced during the process of identifying mortor remains is the fact that not all relatives of the undiscovered persons have given their blood samples for DNA analysis.
There are some families that refuse to give blood samples for different reasons. Some believe their relatives are still alive, others do not want to give blood samples before the perpetrators are brought to justice”, she said.
I estimate that as many as 20 people found would be identified by AND, as if family members of all people who were found to give blood samples. I would like to appeal to relatives of all persons found to give blood samples so that we can complete the identification process for some of them,”.
Speaking of the reasons why still more than 1640 people have not been found in Kosovo, Formisto said there is a lack of new and reliable information for the exact location of the cemetery, adding that some of the mortore remains are in mass graves, some of them in smaller clandestine tombs, as well as in graveyards in various areas, which make the process of localisation of mortar waste more difficult.
There is also the question of a certain number of misidentifications. Immediately after the conflict, corpses have been generally identified, for example through photos, clothes, or personal items, which have resulted in mistakes which today are difficult to track and correct”.
EULEX experts continue to work together with their local colleagues at the Institute of Legal Medicine, offering expertise and advice on identifying possible illegal cemetery and on exhuming and identifying victims from the Kosovo conflict. From the beginning of EULEX's mandate until today, this mission has conducted 656 field operations to locate people found, including 166 exhumations. A total of 456 individuals, including 316 people, have been identified.
