Thursday, March 30, 2006

Here is something that makes me sad and happy at the same time. The good news is that bodies are finally coming home and families of the victims will hopefully find some closure by burying them close to home and in individual graves. The bad news is that many mothers, who have been living with hope the last seven years (delusional, I know), will find their children's remains to be among those brought back.
The question of course remains, what happened to the rest of the missing?


Albanian bodies from mass graves to be handed over by June
March 30, 2006 (BETA) - Gvozden Gagic, president of the Commission for Missing
Persons in the Serbia-Montenegro Council of Ministers, announced on March 29
that by the end of June all the bodies of Kosovo Albanians found in three mass
graves in central Serbia would be handed over to the U.N. administration in
Kosovo. The next handover of 60 bodies of Albanian civilians killed during the
war in 1999 and found in a mass grave in Batajnica would be made on March 31.
"After that the process of identifying the bodies that are not whole will begin.
This will represent the final stage, which is expected to be completed in the
second half of June," Gagic told BETA and added that on April 7 families would
receive the remains of at least ten bodies of killed Serbs, exhumed at various
locations in Kosovo. According to the commission, about 2,400 people in Kosovo
are still listed as missing and their bodies are yet to be found.

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