UN Discovers Human Remains in Kosovo Cave ("Non-Albanians" mass grave after NATO's takeover)

scotsman.com ^ | Mon 18 Apr 2005 | "PA"

[Destro]

Mon 18 Apr 2005

3:54pm (UK)

UN Discovers Human Remains in Kosovo Cave

"PA"

The United Nations in Kosovo said today they had discovered a cave allegedly used to secretly dispose of the human remains of non-Albanians in Kosovo killed during a war in 1998-1999.

Initial findings indicated the area “was used to secretly dispose of human remains, and could be related to the disappearances” of non-Albanians in Kosovo in 1998, the UN statement said.

The UN-run Office on Missing Persons and Forensics began excavating the cave and its surrounding area in Klina, some 30 miles west of the province’s capital Pristina, it said.

About 500 Serbs and 200 members of other non-Albanian communities in Kosovo remain missing and are suspected to have been kidnapped and killed by ethnic Albanian rebels during the province’s 1998-1999 war, according to UN figures. (A lie - more Serbs have been killed than that).

Some 10,000 people – mostly ethnic Albanians – were killed and thousands vanished during that war. Nato pushed the Serb troops out of the province and forced former Serb president Slobodan Milosevic to relinquish control of Kosovo. (That is an outright lie - more like under 5,000 dead from all sides)

Since then, Kosovo has remained officially part of Serbia-Montenegro, the successor state to Yugoslavia, but is administered by the UN mission and Nato-led peacekeepers. Negotiations on its final status are expected to begin this year.

Hundreds of those listed as missing from the war have been found in mass graves in Kosovo and Serbia, but the fate of about 3,000 missing is still to be determined.

Last month, Serbian and Kosovo officials resumed talks aimed at establishing the fate of ethnic Albanians, Serbs and others who vanished during the war – one of the most sensitive and emotionally charged issues between the two former foes.

The two sides signed a framework document and agreed to accept the Red Cross list of 2,960 still missing as their figure of reference. The officials agreed to meet again on June 9 in Pristina.

[Destro]

Non-Albanians is a euphamisim for Serbs - the people the Clinton loving media said were the bad guys. Using the word "non-Albanian" is a way the media plays with the facts and shapes opinions.

[Destro]

Never Forget.

[Fiddlstix]

Non-Albanians is a euphamisim for Serbs - the people the Clinton loving media said were the bad guys. Using the word "non-Albanian" is a way the media plays with the facts and shapes opinions.

Well said

[NeilGus]

The mass graves from this war uncover hundreds of bodies. The mass graves in Iraq uncover thousands (and there are more of them).

The left feel so good about themselves for their rescue efforts in Kosovo where casualties are, by some estimates, less than 10,000 but were willing to do nothing about the hundreds of thousands, most common estimate around 300,000, in Iraq.

[cicero's_son]

Bump.

Return Kosovo to the Serbs, to whom it rightly belongs!

[cicero's_son]

Bump.

Return Kosovo to the Serbs, to whom it rightly belongs!

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

Kind of funny how after all the former media attention paid to "mass graves" in Kosovo mostly contain dead Serbians.

[tfecw]

Yup Serbs made their own. Nor did the Serbian commander order his troops to rape and murder Muslim women while a dutch outfit of the UN stood and watched because their were rendered impotent by the UN. Yup Serbs were just all around nice guys.

Save the crap, Serbs were worse then the other factions, with none of them doing good things.

[joan]

Look what the innocent Albanians were doing.

[oilfieldtrash]

What does this imply wrt to the timing Destro. Usually they know about these things but wait until the opportune moment to take it up.

Wait a minute, talks surrounding the indepence of Kosovo are due to start this summer. Is this a spanner in the works.

[joan]

Where is any DNA evidence of rapes? None have ever been presented. It is nothing but words and false accusations.

But if you know of any evidence, then please tell us. Find just one case, just one proven case with genuine evidence.

[oilfieldtrash]

I cant see that your comments have anything to do with the content of the article.

[FormerLib]

Yup Serbs made their own.

You sound just like Ward Churchill commenting on the 9/11 attacks.

[joan]

He's got anti-Serb baseless propaganda on the brain.

[tfecw]

No Joan i prefer to let you live in your fantasy world that the Serbians were tra-la-laing when the evil US and UN came in and destroyed utopia. I don't need DNA evidence, I have eye witness accounts. So whatever, have fun living in denial.

[Andy from Beaverton]

About 500 Serbs and 200 members of other non-Albanian communities in Kosovo remain missing
According to the UN, I thought theses numbers are really low.

[joan]

"Eye witness" accounts by whom, and how do you KNOW that they aren't lies or made up?

[tfecw]

That all you have? Call me churchill? If you are going to be an idiotic ass without of a shred of creativity, don't bother pinging me on it.

[Pilsner]

The thing you gotta remeber about the Balkans is there aren't any good guys, just various shades of gray and black. That is not to say that we shouldn't hold people (guilty individuals, not communities) accountable, just that which ethinic group was lined up next to the mass grave and shot, and which ethinic group was standing 10 yards away with AK-47s had as much to do with the local balance of power as it did with who were the "good" guys.

[tfecw]

It doesn't matter, anything i say you'll ask for more evidence. It's how you support your opinions and make it seem right in your mind. Have fun with that.