Serbia: 'hundreds of Albanians' found in mass grave [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Human remains believed to be the bodies of hundreds of Albanians killed during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo have been found just inside the Serbian border, a Kosovan official said on Friday.

Authorities in Kosovo have been pressing Serbia to continue to look for bodies on its territory that may have been moved by Serbian forces trying to cover up killings of majority ethnic Albanians during the war.

"For many years, we have cooperated with informers and they told us that there may be more than 250 bodies, they even mention there may be 400," Prenk Gjetaj, head of Kosovo's state commission for missing persons, said.

About 10,000 people are believed to have died in the crackdown by Serbian police and army on an ethnic Albanian rebellion in its former province. The war ended when Nato launched air strikes against Serbia in 1999.

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