Remains of 3 Brothers to Be Returned to U.S.
The remains of three American brothers of ethnic Albanian descent that were dumped in a mass grave in Serbia will be sent to the United States next week, the U.S. Embassy said.
Ylli, Agron and Mehmet Bytyqi were living in New York when they decided to leave the U.S. in the 1990s to fight for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia, Yugoslavia’s main republic. The three were arrested by Serbian police in June 1999.
Their bodies were found last June in a grave with more than 70 other corpses in Petrovo Selo, about 120 miles east of Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital. The brothers’ remains were identified by an FBI forensic team.
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