For 22 years, the corpse has not yet come to us”, the family of the missing between hope and anxiety

The place where the bones were kept had no record of their names on them. After the massacre, Rezalla victims were sent to Kizevac in Serbia to hide very deep on the ground.

After more than five years, the family members of seven victims and two other mortar remnants, which are reuniting the bodies found in Rudnica, would be buried in graves that were so far empty.

Shaban Deliu has been waiting for at least 22 years for Father Nezir's bones, which he knew he was not alive for. Since 5 April 1999, he prays at least, the body of his parents ceases in Kosovo.

We've also been to Kizevac and visited the place where they took them. I'm sorry the dirt was on them. They know how to do this. Two weeks ago we got the confirmation that he's our parent among the seven victims --”, Deliu relates.

For more than two decades, they have been ear-opening that one day they will find Father Neziri's remains.

“22 years have been heavy, not easy. That every cemetery where it was found, where it was discovered, we kept hope that it was there. But, unfortunately, so far these Rezalles have not been found, he adds.

Someone else today is waiting at the border point in Merdare, the remains of father, 82. Aymane Rukoli is waiting for Papa Jonuzi's coffin, while adding that for all these years he has been anxious.

For 22 years, the corpse has not yet come. We've had so much fun, and we're very upset. We've been anxious until these bodies arrived. We're very upset, old man. And they divided them, and brought them: and we were in distress this day. We've had a lot of frustration. Fortunately, our bones have come to rest instead of their own, quiet and comfortable”, she adds.

For five Wolfan boys, it's not known if they're anywhere alive. Annie, why don't you expect coffins today, 87-year-old Halil Ujkan, tired of being bored, is waiting for the coffins of troops found in Kizevac, Serbia.

Two boys were 16 years old, two out of 19 years old, 29 years old. They're missing, we don't know anything about them yet. Two are my sons, three of our brothers, but a whole family... We're just here because our kids don't wait, they're Rezala's. We're waiting, they're looking for them, we know they're there, whether they're alive or dead. We've been taken alive for 22 years. God, they can't have me alive. They say they're in jails, but we don't know about them”, he said.

The chairman of the “Parents' Office”, Bajram Cerkini, says that today after more than five years of excavations, seven troops and two reunifications of troops belonging to the Rezalla massacre have been found.

The five months we've been waiting for these bodies are in the morgue or in the hats or institutions that have played with us, and our nerves between Belgrade, but thanks to Rezala's family, they've also set feet that we don't want to have any more conversations without even the bodies that are in the morgue. With great pressure, with a very bad time and a very dangerous political time, but that doesn't want politics, but what we expect today in”, Cherkin points out.

It expresses the confidence that will be worked on finding other mortories of over 1600 missing persons.

“Even in Kosovo, Belgrade and any country that has been led by a group of family members, data has Serbian military and police. We can't say that we have three-four more mass graveyards, and we're looking at four, five places just in Dreth, Little Caldder, Big Horse, and I don't know where. But they have both sketches and places and numbers, codes for where they are. They always know that even in Kosovo, where the mass cemetery” is, he adds.

Today, the troops of Shefqet Zabel, Sadri Zabel, Dibran Rukoli, Jonuz Rucolit, Etem Deliuut, Nazir Deliuut and Nazif Hoti, who were buried in Kizevac, Serbia. They were buried in this massive cemetery with Vesel Deliu and Behram Rucoli, whose remains had been found in Rudnice, Raska.

The repatriation of seven victims' bodies was implemented by the support of families, the Institute of Legal Medicine, the Kosovo Police- War Crimes Sector, Defence Ministry and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Only in the second phase of continued excavations on May 5th, seven bodies have been found. /kp/