Mass Grave Uncovered in Kosovo

Pristina | 10 July 2009 | Lawrence Marzouk

The remains of eight people have been discovered in a mass grave dating back to 1998, the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo has confirmed.

Following a tip-off that land next to the Gjilan to Kamenica road, in eastern Kosovo, had been dug up in 1998, EULEX and Kosovo Police began excavating the site on Thursday.

On the first day of work in the village of Dobercan, the remains of eight people were uncovered, and EULEX spokesman Christophe Lamfalussy said that much of the site had not yet been checked.

He said: “We started working on the site yesterday [Thursday] and we have found the remains of eight people.”

EULEX’s Office of the Missing Persons and Forensic Medicine, OMPF, is expected to continue excavation work during the weekend. The team includes five experts in anthropology, forensic pathology and exhumations.

Some 2,000 people remain missing following the conflict between ethnic-Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, which ended with Nato intervention in 1999.

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Comments:

Mistake
2009-07-10 14:46:24

I think the term conflict is so often used by mistake instead of war. Fine. But why do you misinform the readers by saying that the conflict was between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo? What do you mean with the term ETHNIC, at first and do you reckon that it was between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs from Serbia??????

not for public (comment)
2009-07-10 14:49:59

Everytime I or my friends comment on editorial mistakes of BalkanInsight, our comments are not published. Also my comment from Arber few minutes ago as below, I do not expect it to be published, but it would be good and unbiased. I think BIRN and Balkan Insightt are losing the reputation they used to have. Someone is either ignoring this fact or letting it intentionally happen. (I think the term conflict is so often used by mistake instead of war. Fine. But why do you misinform the readers by saying that the conflict was between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo? What do you mean with the term ETHNIC, at first and do you reckon that it was between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs from Serbia??????) -

gratitude
2009-07-10 16:52:58

I'm - Iâ€™m impressed, earlier I have read that in Srebernica (Bosnia) up to date 6,200 bodies have been identified, I Kosovo we are continuously finding new mass graves and as benefit Europe lifts visas to the ones that created those mass graves. Shame on you EU, You know the meaning of the word â€œ WHOREâ€ it suite you.

2009-07-10 20:39:58

The time to start the healing, the Albanian way will come. Too many civilian massacres and mass graves.

Facts
2009-07-10 21:48:54

This is a stronger argument why now Kosovo is independent from Serbia. I am sure there are more people in this grave.

Is there a tattoo of nationality on the bones?
2009-07-14 07:10:12

Do not forget to mention the it's very possible that these graves contain Serbs. Afterall, it was the Albanian Guerrilas who had committed massacres in Kosovo against Serbs and probably even their own people. To the above who mentioned that Serbia is getting visas to travel, unfortunately that also applies to Kosovo.

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Mass Grave Uncovered in Kosovo