Prosecution on mass grave in Kosovo

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution said on Tuesday that it learned of a possible mass grave located in Kosovo.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 31.08.2010.

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The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution said on Tuesday that it learned of a possible mass grave located in Kosovo. This information came in the course of the prosecution's investigation against Fatmir Limaj, a former member of the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Prosecution on mass grave in Kosovo The possible mass grave location is in the village of Klecka in Kosovo, and another three sites presumed to contain bodies of Kosovo Serb victims. According to the statement, the prosecutor's office learned of a "crematorium" in Klecka where the KLA "incinerated Serbs and ethnic Albanians disloyal to the KLA". The investigation against Ljimaj and another 28 KLA members was launched in April 2009 on suspicion of war crimes committed against Serbs in Klecka. Evidence uncovered in the investigation suggests that the mass grave at the Belacevac mine contains bodies of 26 Kosovo Serbs, while two more locations - Lake Livacko and Kosare - are presumed to be hiding bodies of Serbs killed between 1998 and 2000, the prosecutor's office noted. The statement adds that EULEX and the Commission on Missing Persons secured the EUR 400,000 needed to search the potential grave sites, after an investigation started into a suspected mass grave of ethnic Albanian victims in the village of Rudnica, in central Serbia. “In the interest of justice, the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office is determined to ascertain the fate of everyone who went missing in the wars in the former Yugoslavia, regardless of their nationality and religion,” reads the statement.

Prosecution on mass grave in Kosovo

The possible mass grave location is in the village of Klečka in Kosovo, and another three sites presumed to contain bodies of Kosovo Serb victims.

According to the statement, the prosecutor's office learned of a "crematorium" in Klečka where the KLA "incinerated Serbs and ethnic Albanians disloyal to the KLA".

The investigation against Ljimaj and another 28 KLA members was launched in April 2009 on suspicion of war crimes committed against Serbs in Klečka.

Evidence uncovered in the investigation suggests that the mass grave at the Belaćevac mine contains bodies of 26 Kosovo Serbs, while two more locations - Lake Livačko and Košare - are presumed to be hiding bodies of Serbs killed between 1998 and 2000, the prosecutor's office noted.

The statement adds that EULEX and the Commission on Missing Persons secured the EUR 400,000 needed to search the potential grave sites, after an investigation started into a suspected mass grave of ethnic Albanian victims in the village of Rudnica, in central Serbia.

“In the interest of justice, the War Crimes Prosecutor's Office is determined to ascertain the fate of everyone who went missing in the wars in the former Yugoslavia, regardless of their nationality and religion,” reads the statement.

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