Kosovo and international institutions claim that they are making efforts to establish the fate of the people who went missing in the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo and that their efforts are bringing positive results, but the families of missing persons are dissatisfied and insist on more intensive work in shedding light on the fate of the missing.
The head of the coordinating committee of families of missing persons, Haki Kasumi, urged the Kosovo government and the UN Mission in Kosovo to invest more effort in the search for the missing.
The Kosovo parliament last year passed a decision to declare April 27 Day of the Disappeared in Kosovo.
This morning, the bodies of 22 Albanians killed in 1999 by Serbian forces and identified recently were buried in the village of Meja near Djakovica, where 350 Albanians from the area of Djakovica have already been buried.
According to data provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which are recognised by both Pristina and Belgrade, 2,087 people are listed as missing, of whom 1,300 are Albanians, around 500 Serbs, and some 200 are members of other non-Serb minorities.