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U.N. finds Kosovo mass grave
Saturday, May 14, 2005 Posted: 11:28 AM EDT (1528 GMT)
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) -- United Nations forensics experts are exhuming bodies presumed to be Serbs from a mass grave in the Kosovo town of Malisevo, the second such find in a month, officials said on Saturday.
"There are multiple remains of bodies and at least two complete bodies," said Marcia Poole, spokeswoman for the U.N. mission which has run the Balkan province since the 1998-99 war.
"They are presumed to be Serbs missing since 1998," she said. A second U.N. source told Reuters: "There are six or seven bodies, and counting."
Some 3,000 people are still missing from the conflict between Serb security forces and ethnic Albanian separatist guerrillas. The vast majority are ethnic Albanians but around 500 Serbs are also missing, feared killed by the rebels.
Poole said the grave site was near a hospital in the former rebel stronghold of Malisevo 45 km (30 miles) southwest of the capital Pristina.
In late April, the U.N. mission said it had exhumed the remains of 22 Serbs from a cave in the western Kosovo region of Klina.
NATO intervened in the Albanian-dominated province in 1999, bombing Serbia for 78 days to drive out Serb forces accused of killing 10,000 Albanian civilians and expelling 800,000.
Six former rebels, including former Kosovo premier Ramush Haradinaj, are charged by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague with abducting and killing Serb civilians and so-called Albanian "collaborators".
Serbs and Kosovo Albanians met in March in Belgrade to discuss the issue of missing persons for the first time in a year. The U.N. source said the latest grave finds were not directly related to the resumption of the dialogue.
The issue remains a major obstacle to reconciliation in the province of 2 million people. The West hopes to open talks in the autumn on whether Kosovo becomes independent or remains formally part of Serb
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