Families in Kosovo mark Missing Persons Day
Families of kidnapped and missing persons in Kosovo want the international community to put more effort into shedding light on the fate of the missing.
Wednesday, 22.06.2011.
15:39
Families of kidnapped and missing persons in Kosovo want the international community to put more effort into shedding light on the fate of the missing. By laying wreaths at the Monument of Truth in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, the families of kidnapped and missing Serbs marked the Missing Persons Day. Families in Kosovo mark Missing Persons Day The first mass kidnapping of the people from Kosovo occurred on June 22, 1998, when miners in the village of Belacevac went missing, as well as people from the villages of Orahovac, Velika Hoca, Zociste, Opterusa and Retimlje. They are believed to have been kidnapped or killed by ethnic Albanian KLA. Coordinator of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo Milorad Trifunovic stated for Tanjug that the fate of the missing persons has still not been clarified, adding that the Association is not satisfied with the work of the international community, particularly when it comes to the missing miners. “We even get the impression that they are preventing us from reaching the truth,” he said. Trifunovic called on the representatives of the international community to allow institutions engaged in clarifying the fate of the missing persons to do their job, primarily the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). “According to information we have, about 100 persons went missing on June 22, 1998, among whom nine miners from Vucitrn, Gojbulje, Milosevo, Kosovo Polje and Pristina," Trifunovic said. The association believes that the remains of the missing Belacevac miners are located in the abandoned mine near the Zilivode village. EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug that EULEX experts from the Department of Forensic Medicine are taking part in examining locations in Zilivode and Belacevac villages, in cooperation with the Kosovo Security Force. The operation is envisaged to last four months, that is by the end of August, Gudeljevic added. She said that, ever since EULEX experts joined the Department of Forensic Medicine in 2008, the department has carried out over 270 field operations, and found more than 135 missing persons. According to the data of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo, 1,831 persons are registered as missing, 541 of whom are Serbs.
Families in Kosovo mark Missing Persons Day
The first mass kidnapping of the people from Kosovo occurred on June 22, 1998, when miners in the village of Belaćevac went missing, as well as people from the villages of Orahovac, Velika Hoča, Zočište, Opteruša and Retimlje. They are believed to have been kidnapped or killed by ethnic Albanian KLA.Coordinator of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo Milorad Trifunović stated for Tanjug that the fate of the missing persons has still not been clarified, adding that the Association is not satisfied with the work of the international community, particularly when it comes to the missing miners.
“We even get the impression that they are preventing us from reaching the truth,” he said.
Trifunović called on the representatives of the international community to allow institutions engaged in clarifying the fate of the missing persons to do their job, primarily the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP).
“According to information we have, about 100 persons went missing on June 22, 1998, among whom nine miners from Vučitrn, Gojbulje, Miloševo, Kosovo Polje and Priština," Trifunović said.
The association believes that the remains of the missing Belaćevac miners are located in the abandoned mine near the Žilivode village.
EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug that EULEX experts from the Department of Forensic Medicine are taking part in examining locations in Žilivode and Belaćevac villages, in cooperation with the Kosovo Security Force.
The operation is envisaged to last four months, that is by the end of August, Gudeljevic added.
She said that, ever since EULEX experts joined the Department of Forensic Medicine in 2008, the department has carried out over 270 field operations, and found more than 135 missing persons.
According to the data of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo, 1,831 persons are registered as missing, 541 of whom are Serbs.
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