Kosovo seeks missing persons even in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia does not co-operate

Kosovo citizens have not only dealt with and disappeared in the last war in Kosovo, but also in earlier wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For this reason, days ago the regional group's meeting for unidentified cases of missing persons has been held, where our country has reached the identification of eleven mortar remains and five identity confirmation cases. However, what remains of concern is the identification of locations on Serbia's territory, as there is still no date to continue digging there.

Also suspicious is the identification and acquisition of mortor remains from family members at the time of the investigation of The Hague, as individuals are traditionally identified rather than DNA for which family members pray for cooperation so that a large number of mortar remains in Pristina monk can be confirmed.

From the Government Commission for the Undiscovered, Concert Garas tells Kosovo that this process has started since 2021 and that the challenges facing them are still lack of information from the Serbian side.

He said that the people of Kosovo have faced wars throughout the history phase and, as a result of the war, have been co-operating with Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, to identify locations and persons found in that part as well.

Fields: Apart from Serbia, missing troops in Kosovo wars, there are also in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A process that we have started since November 2021 a process that we are calling re-invention and review of all cases of mortor remains, of course, data has been introduced even in the statistical sense including 16 new identifications as a result of this process, in fact 11 identifications and five cases in lack of identity, but also the challenges we face, which enter the lack of reliable information in this lack of Serbian side information in co-operation with the process. Unidentified cases have also been discussed which continue to be preserved in the AVN, in the care of Kosovo's legal medicine, but also in monks and other states. Therefore, one of the cases addressed has been that of missing persons, citizens of Kosovo as a result of the war and the territory of the former Yugoslavia, respectively, in the Bosnian and the war of Croatia, and in co-operation with both republics, whether we co-operate with families, family villages to contact these families as we have consistently said the people of Kosovo, with kidnappings not only this recent 1998/1999 war, but in all phases of history, including the 1990s, including in the era of opuptsim <111>, Gara said.

The race stressed that in relation to the Serbian side for identifying locations and finding undiscovered persons, even today it is necessary to support the international community, in order to have a pressure approach for the Serb side to be more cooperative with Kosovo.

Race: Co-operation with the Serbian side for missing persons is flawed, international community support needed

The Republic of Kosovo remains an example in the region and more broadly for the way any information can be addressed that would contribute to resolving cases of missing persons, there are at least 13 locations addressed within Kosovo's territory, and most of these locations have resulted in positive results in finding and exhuming mortar waste during the war. . . What remains disturbing, the challenge of identifying locations on Serbia's territory, despite continued demands, still does not have a date to continue digging into Serbia's location. 6:40 is more than necessary further to support the international community in terms of pressure on the Serbian side to be more cooperative in the process and to make available the data from their archives. Since we are very sure that mass graves should be in this space but it is necessary to have data from the archives in Serbia's institutions, as we are talking about an area close to the mines that I'm saying was that this whole change is natural, so we're 24 years after the war and all data from Serbian and international institutions made available in this process, and then we could specify locations or we could choose cases of missing persons in an attempt to try to respect their family rights to know the whereabouts of their loved ones, kidnapped by the war force in Kosovo, Gara <0> said.

Meanwhile, Council of Missing Families Chairman Ahmet Graychev added that the excavations are continuing to be neglected because of Serbia. He has also prayed for families to address the footsteps of persons from war because, in the absence of identity in the Kosovo monk, it is a large number of troops.

Grycevci: Kosovo monk has large number of troops lacking identity

“Projections seen in the last year have been a little underachievered, not because of the Kosovo government, but because of Serbia, it is the number one cause which does not allow them to investigate in Serbia. As far as Kosovo territory is concerned, there are excavations that are being made, there are also tombs that have been explored by The Hague's Tribunal in 2000/2003 to 2007, and morto remains are being found. ...What brings us trouble that the families who have taken them during The Hague Tribunal's tracking time, here we have the problem that most people have taken on traditional grounds, based on clothes when we know that before the execution, Serbia has stripped them of and given the ultimatum 1 minute or two minutes to wear, 100 people have not been able to find their own clothes, and so we have a large number of mortar remains in the monk, which wants access. ... We also have missing people on the territory of Bosnia, Croatia and workers or either travelers who have travelled from Slovenia to Kosovo, are missing for that too, with law and to fix their case... We urge family members all who have traditionally received The Hague Tribunal in mass cemetery, to give us five drops of blood cost us nothing, touch the grave and Lapidari, just care about whether they're at the monk or not”, Grycevci said.

Otherwise, over 1,600 people are still considered missing from the last war in Kosovo. / KP/