UN finds Kosovo mass grave in ex-rebel stronghold

Reuters ^

[Alex Marko]

MALISEVO, Serbia and Montenegro, May 14 (Reuters) - United Nations forensics experts are exhuming bodies presumed to be Serbs from a mass grave in the Kosovo town of Malisevo, the second such find in a month, officials said on Saturday.

"There are multiple remains of bodies and at least two complete bodies," said Marcia Poole, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission which has run the Balkan province since the 1998-99 war.

"They are presumed to be Serbs missing since 1998."

A second U.N. source told Reuters: "There are six or seven bodies, and counting." He said some had been found with their hands tied.

Some 3,000 people are still missing from the conflict between Serb security forces and ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas. The vast majority are ethnic Albanians but around 500 Serbs are also missing, feared killed by the rebels.

Marked with tape, the grave site is behind a hospital 100 metres (yards) from the main road in the former rebel stronghold of Malisevo, 45 km (30 miles) southwest of the capital Pristina.

A Jordanian U.N. police unit is guarding the area.

In late April, the U.N. mission said it had exhumed the remains of 22 Serbs from a cave in the western Klina region.

NATO intervened in the Albanian-dominated province in 1999, bombing Serbia for 78 days to drive out Serb forces accused of killing 10,000 Albanian civilians and expelling 800,000.

Six former rebels, including former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, are charged by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague with abducting and killing Serb civilians and so-called Albanian "collaborators".

Serbs and Kosovo Albanians met in March in Belgrade to discuss the issue of missing persons for the first time in a year. The U.N. source said the latest grave finds were not directly related to the resumption of the dialogue.

The subject remains a major obstacle to reconciliation in the province of 2 million people. The West hopes to open talks in the autumn on whether Kosovo becomes independent or remains formally part of Serbia.

[montyspython]

You really should educate yourself on the subject matter first before making uninformed statements.

[FormerLib]

It is important to note that this mass grave pre-dates Kaiser Willie's bombing of the Serbs.

[ma bell]

A second U.N. source told Reuters: "There are six or seven bodies, and counting." He said some had been found with their hands tied.

and this is the second such findings within the month...?

[ma bell]

What is your knowledge of Serbian History?

[jb6]

Will hoppy come and explain it all away for me, so I can feel safe again?

[ma bell]

go to the San Jose KFC. he's on the corner with an empty famly size KFC box, guarding that intersection. He'll take time out to answer ur questions.

[montyspython]

But but but wait a second! Are you saying that canard that was fed to us regarding Serbian oppression of Kosovar Albanians prior to NATO's operations might really be a snow job?

Pray tell how the winds of fate begin to blow, posthumously.

[montyspython]

He only serves extra crispy mind you.

[montyspython]

I believe you already have insight into the answer of that question, its pretty apparent.

[montyspython]

My new tagline: "Love that chicken from Popeye's"

[TheCrusader]

"may I point out that the serbs are allies of russia; quite frankly they aren't our friends, though Yugo was nonaligned during the cold war at least."

The Serbs probably need protection from Russia, existing smack in the middle of Islamic terrorists and barbarians. I will point out to you that during WWII it was the Serbs who saved a U.S. Army paratrooper regiment from certain slaughter as they jumped right into a Nazi ambush.

[Andy from Beaverton]

The FN Ismofacist bastards are still saying KosovA like Clinton did until the last week of the war.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Based on the above, the best course of action post-1991 would, quite frankly, have been to cordon off serbia and bosnia and let the two malevolents - neither friends of ours - have at it.
Agreed 100%, but Clinton sent the Islamofacist in Bosnia $800 million in arms from Iran breaking the UN arms embargo and changing the outcome of the war. He also ethnically cleansed 400,000 Serbs from Krajina, the largest ethnic cleansing since the Soviets cleansed Eastern Europe after WWII.

[ma bell]

Popeyes is having a seccessionist referendum vote to breakaway from KFC this coming Saturday and Sunday. Thereby, outside powers are sending in neutral observers from Hoplite Republic to independantly verify the integrity of the polling stations.

[montyspython]

So who will be dawning the Colonel Sanders outfit?

[ma bell]

Col. Sanders= mark

Goofy=Ronly Bonly Laden

[Wraith]

Sorry for the late reply. It does not surprise me that the blood on the KLA hands starts to become factual. The count will rise. How many Kosavar Albanians did the KLA kill is the big questions? Killing seems very easy for them. Hoplite I'm sure has adopted a very RESERVE(d) opinion about all of this. He has not been around and has taken a RESERVE (d)position about all of this bad KLA behavior. Could it be that hoplite now knows that the KLA did bad things and maybe he has been barking up the wrong tree? He is probably formulating that the Serbs committed mass suicide or something no so RESERVE (d) like that. Who knows...

[jb6]

No worse, the Serbs killed their own, then snuck in a buried the evidence to incriminate the KLA angels.

[ma bell]

Why is it the Serbs do not chase me and try to run me down with their tractors, or car each time I visit, but only the Albanians?

Or, the media remains silent?

[montyspython]

"RESERVE (d)"

Heh, nice dig.