[ALBSA-Info] [Kcc-News] Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo

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Serbia returns bodies to Kosovo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4102761.stm

By Matt Prodger
BBC Belgrade correspondent

Serbia has returned the remains of what are believed to be 44 Kosovo
Albanians who were killed in 1999 and buried in a mass grave outside
Belgrade.

It was the largest handover of bodies since mass graves were discovered
outside Kosovo three years ago.

As the remains arrived at the UN checkpoint separating Kosovo from the rest
of Serbia, relatives and Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj were waiting.

The bodies had been exhumed from a pit at Batajnica police training ground.

It is one of three mass graves containing more than 800 victims that were
uncovered in Serbia in 2001.

No arrests

Some 10,000 people died during the Kosovo war - most of them ethnic
Albanians. More than 3,000 are still missing and it is a highly charged
issue.

The authorities in Belgrade have been criticised for being slow to return
the bodies discovered in mass graves in Serbia proper.

They failed to convict anyone in connection with the killings, which are
thought to have taken place in Kosovo before the bodies were trucked to
locations around Serbia.

And they have consistently refused to arrest and hand over four generals
indicted by The Hague war crimes tribunal for their actions in Kosovo.

Associates of one of the indictees, Nebojsa Pavkovic, said on Thursday that
he had no intention of surrendering.
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