OMPF Shares Concerns of the Council of Family Associations

UNMIK/PR/1106 ^ | Tuesday, 20 January 2004

[mark502inf]

OMPF Shares Concerns of the Council of Family Associations PRISTINA - The Office on Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) understands and shares the concerns of the Council of Family Associations, whose members are on hunger strike in their endeavour to draw attention to the issues faced by families of missing persons. OMPF has been left with a difficult legacy since its formation in June 2002. However, the Division has been making steady progress in securing the return of mortal remains from Serbia proper. On six occasions, OMPF coordinated the transfer of multiple remains from Serbia proper to Kosovo and to date, a total of 195 mortal remains have been handed over to the affected families. In order to further accelerate the missing persons’ process, UNMIK signed a joint MoU with ICMP on 26 th November 2003. OMPF shares the concerns of the families that better cooperation is needed from the authorities in Belgrade. Approximately 700 bodies exhumed in Serbia proper are awaiting return to the affected families. OMPF has the operational capacity to handle the return of these remains and shares the wishes of the families that the immediate return of approximately 246 positively identified mortal remains awaiting transfer to Kosovo is agreed by the Serbian authorities.

[mark502inf]

Dryly worded press release referring to the little-publicized return from mass graves in Serbia-proper of murdered Kosovar Albanians to their relatives in Kosovo. Based on Milosevic's "clean the terrain" order, the bodies of at least 800 ethnic Albanians were transported to Serbia and hidden in mass graves; to include at a Serbian special police training area outside Belgrade. 195 positively identified bodies have been returned already. 246 other bodies have been identified & are awaiting return while work is ongoing jointly between Belgrade and the UN Office of Missing Persons to identify approximately 450 more. The hunger strike is over the delays in returning the remaining bodies, but it is promising that Serbia is starting to face up to the crimes of the Milosevic regime. Maybe it is time for some FReepers to do the same.

[novakeo]

What are you a KLA shill?
A Clinton shill?
Probably both.

[mark502inf]

What are you a KLA shill? A Clinton shill? Probably both.

What are you, a Milosevic shill? Or just in favor of covering up murders? Probably both.

[Burkeman1]

I thought it was 100,000 in mass graves? How many Serbs have been murdered by Albanians since Clinton's little wag the dog war there? How many driven out of Kosovo? How many ancient Orthodox churches burned, blown up, and bulldozed? Wasn't Milosevic just elected from prison to parliment in Serbia?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn04.html

I think you should face the truth.

[Gumption]

Are these bodies male/female, old/young or what?

Another question for you. Of all the many different ethnicities within Serbia, why would Slobo only choose one of them to cleanse? Why not the Gypsies? Was it arbitrary?

[dennisw]

You are overjoyed that Islamics control a greater part of Europe than 10 years ago. Out with the Christians and in with the Albanian Muslims.

[cherry]

I have no doubt that there were attrocities.....however, we went to war, dropped carpet bombs on innocent civilians and maternity wards because we were told that there were 10,000 bodies in mass graves....not 800...

would 800 bodies be worth a war?...maybe.....I don't know....

when you read these kinds of stories, I have to keep asking myself what ethnic or racial or religious group in the world is the most evil, the most inhumane, the most diabolical.....

...and there are so many choices, sadly....

[mj1234]

Read the lateat posts from the TRIAL of slobo..

He is not free of guilt but.. the terror war in the Balkans

I believe was started by the albanians. -there have been many

posts relating to this -

by the way 700 bodies-!!?? - compare that to 6 months

of finding 10,000 + multiple grave sites in Iraq.

Bush should just claim "ethnic cleansing dictator" and all

will be forgiven on the war to liberate Iraq.

[novakeo]

Murderers on both sides, All this bull about mass graves is just that bull, propagated by the Clintons and their minions in the press. The Albanians were aligned with Muslim terror networks, with the KLA were al-Qaida units, HezbAllah, Islamic Jihad, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and scores of other "Holy Warriors" from the Islamic world. Clinton aligned the United States with these forces that Bush's "war on terror" is "supposedly" against.

Instead of going into Iraq, we should have gone into Albania and root out all the real terror networks there, or at least acknowledge that the Serbs were fighting the enemy that we are "supposedly" fighting, or at least allow the Serbs to defend themselves against terrorists.

[PLK]

by the way 700 bodies-!!?? - compare that to 6 months of finding 10,000 + multiple grave sites in Iraq. Bush should just claim "ethnic cleansing dictator" and all will be forgiven on the war to liberate Iraq.

This is the elephant in my room whenever I hear libs bleat their anti-war cry. What's with this? Saddam's "atrocities" beat Slobo's hands down. Why is Clinton and Clark's war not questioned by the peaceniks, yet Bush is vilified for taking down one of the most brutal dictators of all time?

I fear the answer to the question is that liberals don't truly care about these people or human rights - their real goal is advancement of socialism in the U.S.

[mark502inf]

Since you took the first post so well, here's some more. Remember when NATO released the aerial imagery of the mass grave at Izbice? And there were no bodies there after the war? All the Slobo apologists and atrocity deniers said the imagery had been doctored--a NATO lie uncovered! But the local Albanians said that Serbs had come back and dug up the bodies and taken them away. KLA B.S., right? Well, now some of the bodies hidden in the mass graves in Serbia proper have been DNA-identified as being from the massacre at Izbice.

And its the Serbs coming up with the graves, the bodies, and the identifications--not Clark, not Soros, not the KLA or the NWO.

[Burkeman1]

Look at every war that the US has been involved in this century. All by Democrats and "progressive" types. They only oppose war when a Republican or conservative runs them. There were massive protests all over Europe during Clinton's Kosovo war that dwarfed any of the protests against Bush and the Iraq war. The press in this country didn't cover them. The Russians pulled their ambassador for the first time ever from Washington during the Kosovo war and this was barely mentioned by the media either.

Make no mistake. The dems don't oppose the war in Iraq- they just oppose it because Bush runs it. If any one of them becomes President they will widen the war in Iraq and perhaps institute a draft for more wars in that region. (that would please some Phoneycons on this site.)

[Burkeman1]

NO- just UNMIK- The UNited Nations in Kosovo which has the credibility of zero to all but Muslem terrorists.

[mark502inf]

Of all the many different ethnicities within Serbia, why would Slobo only choose one of them to cleanse?

The Croats and Bosniaks would argue with you; although as fellow Slavs they weren't really a different ethnicity--just different enough to warrant even worse treatment than what Slobo gave to the Albs.

[mark502inf]

You are overjoyed that Islamics control a greater part of Europe than 10 years ago. Out with the Christians and in with the Albanian Muslims.

Nice logic.

[XHogPilot]

Based on Milosevic's "clean the terrain" order...

What order is that? Is it in evidence at his trial?

[mark502inf]

I have no doubt that there were attrocities.....however, we went to war, dropped carpet bombs on innocent civilians and maternity wards because we were told that there were 10,000 bodies in mass graves....not 800...

Cherry, the 800+ represent just what the Serbs have have so far exhumed in Serbia-proper. It does not include the thousands already found in Kosovo.

I have to keep asking myself what ethnic or racial or religious group in the world is the most evil, the most inhumane, the most diabolical..... ...and there are so many choices, sadly....

I think people must be judged as individuals, not groups. Milosevic is an evil man--as are many of his associates. But the Serbs are not an evil people, as evidenced partly by coming to terms with these crimes. The link at post 1 above includes a pretty inspirational quote from the Belgrade police captain in charge of the investigation.

[Incorrigible]

Including you this time Hoplite...

[Burkeman1]

It does not include the thousands already found in Kosovo.

I am sure there must be a list of names of "thousands" already found in Kosovo killed by the Serbs? Where are the bodies? Tell us the locations of the mass graves uncovered in Kosovo where these "thousands" were found?

[mark502inf]

I thought it was 100,000 in mass graves?

I think Secretary Cohen said that. It wasn't me. His exaggeration doesn't make the actual number of Albanians who were murdered by Frenki's Boys any less dead.

How many ancient Orthodox churches burned, blown up, and bulldozed?

About half the number as mosques that were attacked by the Serbs in Kosovo. Both sides are wrong for doing so.