The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and the Commission for Missing Persons launched the digs at the site in Rudnica, municipality of Raska, which is believed to hold the remains of 250 people.
On instructions issued by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office, digs at the Rudnica site will be carried out according to the method of forensic archaeology so as to establish the credibility of information about a mass grave.
The preliminary examination was attended by members of the Serbian government Commission for Missing Persons, Working group for missing persons of the Kosovo interim government, members of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, EULEX and representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
President of the Serbian government Commission for Missing Persons Veljko Odalovic said in an interview for the Novi Pazar-based Regionalna Radio-Televizija Novi Pazar that the Commission wishes the dig to remove all dilemmas about the site.
“We examined the site on several occasions. We acted on the information received from EULEX. This is a serious and difficult matter, which is why we allocated substantial funds for the investigation of the site,” he said.
The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office discovered a potential mass grave at the Rudnica site in Raska, southern Serbia, which according to witnesses contains the bodies of 250 Kosovo Albanians. The Prosecutor’s Office believes that the remains were transported there during the withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo in June 1999 and that the action was conducted by the members of the then Special police unit.
The issue of the mass grave at Rudnica was launched by the Pristina working group and UNMIK back in 2004 and unsuccessful examinations were performed in May and June 2007.
Wednesday 11 December 2013
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