KOSOVO/IRAQ

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Date:         Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:45:52 +0200
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From:         Wolfgang Plarre <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      NEWS: More than 4,000 still missing four years after Kosovo
             conflict (Deutsche Presse Agentur, 17 April 2003)
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Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur
Date: 16 Apr 2003

More than 4,000 still missing four years after Kosovo conflict

Belgrade (dpa) - The United Nations administration in Kosovo (UNMIK)
said Wednesday that so far 145 out of 4,000 bodies exhumed in the
province since the end of the war have been identified, the private Beta
news agency reported.

    A total of 4,300 people have been reported missing since 1999, most 
of them ethnic Albanians, said chief of the UNMIK department for missing 
persons, Jose Pablo Baraibar.


     The list was not yet fully "consolidated" and UNMIK has been
working on it with Belgrade, he said.

     According to available data, 909 of the missing were non-Albanians, 
but the figure was expected to rise, as Serbs recently added another 350 
names to it.

     Barabair said no mass graves have been found in Kosovo, the site of
a bloody conflict between Belgrade's security forces and ethnic Albanian
guerrillas in 1998 and 1999, but that more individual burial sites were
expected to be found.

    The fighting was accompanied by a wave of terror by the security
forces and outright expulsions of civilians which led to an exodus of
refugees to Albania and Macedonia.
    The conflict was ended after NATO bombed Slobodan Milosevic's
regime into accepting an international peacekeeping presence in June 1999

# posted by Yuri Nakshin @ 7:16 AM