40 Kosovo Villagers Buried

Their caskets draped in the red and black Albanian flag, 40 ethnic Albanians were buried Thursday on a hillside in front of 10,000 mourners nearly a month after their killings shocked the world into action on Kosovo.

The bodies of more than 40 ethnic Albanian villagers were found in a gully after a Serbian police attack on this village Jan. 16.

The Serbs subsequently recovered 40 of the bodies but delayed releasing them to relatives.

William Walker, who heads the peace monitoring team in Kosovo, told the mourners that there was “no justification for what happened here in Racak. The graves before me represent the madness, the waste, the futility of unrestrained violence.”