Probe into missing K. Serb patients

The War Crimes Prosecution is investigating the disappearance of patients from a Kosovo hospital during and after 1999, B92 has learned.

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Tuesday, 11.11.2008.

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The War Crimes Prosecution is investigating the disappearance of patients from a Kosovo hospital during and after 1999, B92 has learned. NATO's troops in the province, KFOR, led a probe of their own into the goings-on at a psychiatric hospital in Stimlje, from which 40 patients went missing. Probe into missing K. Serb patients Ljiljana Selim Jovanovic from Bor and Mirjana Paunovic from Kjazevac – both towns in central Serbia – are reported to be among those missing. They were sent to the hospital in 1996 by the Bor Social Services, but since 1999, there has been no news about their fate. After a three-member KFOR team visited the hospital to conduct an inspection, they sent their findings, listing irregularities they encountered, to UNMIK and the Serbian Missing Persons Commission. At the request of the commission, the hospital was searched, but none of the 40 patients mentioned in the KFOR report were found. Now the prosecution suspects that they were taken out of the hospital the same evening after KFOR left. According to operative information, they were taken out of the hospital's grounds in vans in the dead of the night. The vehicles were then seen on the road near the border crossing with Albania. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution previously launched an investigation into claims that hundreds of Kosovo Serbs were kidnapped by ethnic Albanians after the 1999 war, to be taken to northern Albania, where their vital organs were removed to be sold in the black market.

Probe into missing K. Serb patients

Ljiljana Selim Jovanović from Bor and Mirjana Paunović from Kjaževac – both towns in central Serbia – are reported to be among those missing.

They were sent to the hospital in 1996 by the Bor Social Services, but since 1999, there has been no news about their fate.

After a three-member KFOR team visited the hospital to conduct an inspection, they sent their findings, listing irregularities they encountered, to UNMIK and the Serbian Missing Persons Commission.

At the request of the commission, the hospital was searched, but none of the 40 patients mentioned in the KFOR report were found.

Now the prosecution suspects that they were taken out of the hospital the same evening after KFOR left.

According to operative information, they were taken out of the hospital's grounds in vans in the dead of the night. The vehicles were then seen on the road near the border crossing with Albania.

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution previously launched an investigation into claims that hundreds of Kosovo Serbs were kidnapped by ethnic Albanians after the 1999 war, to be taken to northern Albania, where their vital organs were removed to be sold in the black market.

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