The mass grave is located in Dush, a village in central Kosovo.
The chief of UNMIK's Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, Jose Pablo Barayabar, told the press the remains of 12 bodies had been found so far and that the initial investigation indicated the victims were not Albanian but of other ethnicity. He did not rule out the possibility of finding the remains of more bodies.
UNMIK Office for Judicial Affairs senior officer Roberta Baldini declined to say who reported the location of the mass grave. She said the site was very difficult to examine because of water and because it was covered in garbage and old cars.
The president of the Serbia and Montenegro Government Commission on Missing Persons, Gvozden Gagic, said Belgrade had previously alerted UNMIK to possible mass graves in Klina Municipality because Serb and Albanian troops had fought there on a number of occasions.
The bodies of at least 800 Kosovo Albanians abducted during the war have been found in mass graves in Serbia so far. Less than 400 have been returned to Kosovo.
Pristina and Belgrade last month reopened talks on missing persons. It is assumed that nearly 3,000 ethnic Albanians, 500 Serbs and 200 non-Albanians went missing during the war, Pristina's dailies said today.