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16 Apr 2003
More than 4,000 still missing four years after Kosovo conflict
Belgrade (dpa) - 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.
The fighting was accompanied by a wave of terror by the security forces and outright expulsions of civilians which led to an exodus of refugees to Albania and Macedonia.
The conflict was ended after NATO bombed Slobodan Milosevic's regime into accepting an international peacekeeping presence in June 1999.
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