Mass Grave Found in Kosovo
U.N. forensic experts are exhuming bodies presumed to be Serbian from a mass grave in the town of Malisevo in Kosovo, the second such find in a month, officials said Saturday.
“There are multiple remains of bodies and at least two complete bodies,” said Marcia Poole, spokeswoman for the United Nations mission that has run the war-torn Serbian province since 1999. “They are presumed to be Serbs missing since 1998.”
A second U.N. source said there were six or seven bodies, some with their hands tied.
About 3,000 people are still missing from the 1998-99 conflict between Serbian security forces and ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas. The vast majority are ethnic Albanians, but about 500 Serbs are also missing, believed to have been killed by the rebels.
The grave site is behind a hospital 100 yards from the main road in Malisevo, a former rebel stronghold 25 miles west of the provincial capital, Pristina.
In late April, the U.N. mission said it had exhumed the remains of 22 Serbs from a cave in the western Klina region.
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