UN experts claim central Kosovo site contains bodies of 12 Serbs - official
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - May 15, 2005, Sunday

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Belgrade, 15 May: Dr Slavisa Dobricanin, forensic medicine expert and member of the SCG [Serbia-Montenegro] Missing Persons Commission, has said that UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] was convinced that a mass grave which had been found in the outskirts of Malisevo [near Pristina], where the exhumation was under way, contained the remains of 12 Serbs.

Dobricanin said that the site in question had been mentioned by Luan Mazreku in 1998 when he admitted perpetrating crimes against Serbs in [the village of] Klecka [in south- central Kosovo].

The excavation of the grave will be completed within the next 10 days and the identification of the bodies, along with those which were discovered in a pit near Volujak village will then be carried out in a laboratory in Orahovac, Dobricanin said.

"UNMIK forensic experts yesterday confirmed to me that they found remains of 24 bodies in Volujak and that they believed that the Malisevo mass grave contained remains of 12 bodies. We are dealing with a total of 36 Serbs from Orahovac who were kidnapped and killed and whose families have been searching for them all these years," Doricanin told RTS [Serbian state TV].

SOURCE: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 13:26 GMT, 15 May 05
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