Kosovo Mortore remains suspected of Kosovo buried were not found at Serbia's headquarters

At this location, excavations have been held in the last 13 days in search of a mass cemetery with bodies of Albanians killed during the recent war in Kosovo. The request for inspection of this location had been submitted to official Pristina.

Velko Odalovic of the Government of Serbia's Commission for Missing Persons said at the scene on May 25th that after the investigation, no remains have been found.

He added that the search for mass cemeteries in the future would continue according to demands, but has demanded the same from official Pristina.

There is no difference between the victims. Both Albanian and Serbian families have the same right to know what happened to their loved ones“, Odalovic said.

For this reason we are seeking to intensify the work on this process even in Kosovo“, he added, the REL reported.

On the first day of the evaluation excavations, present at the location from Kosovo were representatives of the Government Commission for Missing Persons, experts from the Institute of Legal Medicine, representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross, as well as the Bureau for Missing Persons.

Kosovo officials had repeatedly raised doubts about the existence of a mass cemetery in Serbia's village of Staff.

That fact was strengthened even more when the remains of a number of Albanian civilians killed during the war in Kosovo were found in the municipality of Raska near the border with Kosovo on November 16, 2020. Kzhevaku was the fifth location in Serbia, where troops of Kosovars killed in the 1998-99 war were found.

According to data from nongovernmental organisations, the bodies of about a thousand Kosovars killed have been found in mass cemetery in Serbia.

About 1,600 other people still remain missing in Kosovo, mainly from the Albanian community.