EXCERPT: More than 4,000 still missing four
years after Kosovo conflict
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - April 16, 2003
The United Nations administration in Kosovo (UNMIK)
said Wednesday that so far 145 out of 4,000 bodies exhumed in the province since
the end of the war have been identified, the private Beta news agency reported.
A total of 4,300 people have been reported missing since 1999, most of them
ethnic Albanians, said chief of the UNMIK department for missing persons, Jose
Pablo Baraibar.
The list was not yet fully "consolidated" and UNMIK has been working on it with
Belgrade, he said.
According to available data, 909 of the missing were non-Albanians, but the
figure was expected to rise, as Serbs recently added another 350 names to it.
Barabair said no mass graves have been found in Kosovo, the site of a bloody
conflict between Belgrade's security forces and ethnic Albanian guerrillas in
1998 and 1999, but that more individual burial sites were expected to be found.
10:15 Central European Time
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