MORE THAN 1,000 SERBS ABDUCTED OR MISSING FROM KOSOVO SINCE 1998 - ASSOCIATION
SRNA - September 15, 2003

Banja Luka - From 1998 up to this day 1,303 Serbs have disappeared from Kosmet (Kosovo-Metohija), although this figure is not final, the Association of Families of Abducted and Missing Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija has said.

A member of the association's headquarters in Belgrade, Dragana Majstorovic, told SRNA that of all the Kosmet Serbs who have been abducted or missing since 1998, more than 90 per cent have been abducted or missing since the arrival (in summer 1999) of international stabilization forces - Kfor (Kosovo Force) - in this southern Serbian province.

"We hope for all Serb associations to unite into one organization so we can point to the real truth regarding the suffering of Serbs in areas of the former Yugoslavia," Majstorovic added, whose 17-year-old son Ivan, a secondary school student, disappeared on 19 August 1999 in Pristina.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1054 gmt 15 Sep 03

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