Efforts to whitewash the fate of more than 1,500 citizens missing by violence during the Kosovo war are intensified. Over the course of this year, some 20 locations with assessment excavations have been addressed, while intensive action on the ground is under way between Kacanic and Shtrpce, with plans to be intervened in three to four other locations of particular interest by the end of the year.
The main focus of excavations remains at the cemetery of large cities, including those in the Arberia neighbourhood in Pristina and the cemetery of Muslim believers in northern Mitrovica. These spaces were allegedly used during the war by Serbian forces for covering the crime tracks and hiding the bodies of victims. Research in these areas continues to face major challenges due to lack of accurate data, especially those containing institutional archives in Serbia.
The exhumation process has brought concrete results following recent commitments in Zubin Potok. From the exhumed morto remains in the three locations of mass graves in Calunder and Yabuk are confirmed six identifications through DNA reports. Legal teams expect the results of tests for other samples sent to the International Commission’s laboratory for Missing Persons, in order for new results to be communicated with family members.
Among the identified are three well-known names of the national issue: doctors Adami and Fatmir Fazliu, as well as lawyer Ali Haliti. After confirmation of the DNA, meetings have been held with their families to set the details and dates of redependence.
The research activity has also expanded with new resurgings north of Mitrovica, where a person’s morto remains were found and exhumed. This area will remain high priority in the agenda, as circumstances for the disappearance of many victims include the group of intellectuals from Mitrovica, Skenderaj and Vushtrria seized on April 19, 1999, as well as members of the Fika and Isufi families lead directly to the locations of this border generation.
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