Kosovo: Eulex, remains of 12 missing returned to families

Still no trace of 1,800 following 1990s war with Serbia

22 May, 18:28

(ANSAmed) - PRISTINA, MAY 22 - The remains of twelve persons thought to have gone missing during the armed conflict in Kosovo between regular Serbian troops and Kosovar separatists at the end of the 1990s have been identified and returned to the families. As the EULEX mission announced in Pristina today, the remains of ten of the twelve victims were found in comunal graves on Serb territory. Approximately 1,800 people still count as missing following the war in Kosovo. Between 1998 and 1999 at least 13,000 people lost their lives, most of them Kosovar Albanians.

So far the remains of 308 people have been identified and returned to their families, Eulex adds.(ANSAmed)
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