Remains of Serbs from Kosovo Mass Grave Buried
PRISTINA-BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- More than two dozen Serbian civilians, including women and children found in a mass grave in Kosovo, were laid to rest in Belgrade on Saturday after their remains were handed over to relatives.
The 29 bodies, including an 11-member Serb family executed by ethnic Albanian terrorists on June 17-19, 1998, were identified through DNA analysis and handed over Friday by U.N. authorities from the southern province.
According to the Associated Press, a few hundred people attended the funeral at the cemetery on the outskirts of the Serbian capital, mostly the victims’ relatives, but also families of the Serbs still missing from the conflict. So far, 212 Serbs have been exhumed in Kosovo and reburied outside the province, mostly in Serbian cities where their surviving family members fled during last seven years since the province has been under the UN control.
More than 2,000 Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians remain unaccounted for in what remains one of the most sensitive and emotionally charged issue for the Serbs.
Receiving this type of news and “packages” from the south of their country for decades has hardly helped persuade anyone in Serbia Albanian terrorists in Kosovo should be rewarded with the part of Serbian land, or with the seat in United Nations.
Volujak Cave: Mass grave where the bodies of Serbian civilians murdered by Albanian Kosovo Muslims were thrown
Volujak Mass Grave
In mid-April 2004, UNMIK representatives found remains of 21 bodies of Kosovo Serbs in a cave near the village of Volujak near Klina. The victims were reported missing in the summer of 1998.
The following video material includes updated materials of Gracanica’s Glas Juga journalists as well as materials from the archives of Ninoslav Randjelovic, who recorded talks with the families of the missing Kosovo Serbs from that area, which is today a firm stronghold of the terrorist UCK/KLA, Albanian Muslim “White al-Qaeda” occupying Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija.
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