Posted on 05/14/2005 7:28:08 AM PDT by 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.
Maybe its your winning personality and unobtrusive charm? Cough..cough..bullshit..cough...cough...
:-)
Because you are nothing but meat on the table for the freedom loving Albanians.
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