Mass grave may hold up to 500 Kosovo victims

A mass grave said to contain up to 500 Albanians allegedly killed in 1999 will be opened Tuesday in Serbia.

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Monday, 04.06.2007.

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Mass grave may hold up to 500 Kosovo victims

Authorities believe the bodies were originally buried elsewhere, then dug up, collected, and dumped at the quarry on June 3, 1999, a senior Serbian official told Reuters.

That was a week before NATO called a halt to its 78-day bombing campaign in 1999.

"We believe that between 300 and 500 bodies can be found there," said the official, who asked not to be named.

"We assume that, as in other cases, the bodies were moved by Serbian forces in order to conceal evidence of atrocities," he said.

The mass grave would be the largest discovered in Serbia since 2001, when the corpses of more than 800 Kosovo Albanians were found in pits on a police training ground outside Belgrade and in eastern Serbia.

A judge with the Belgrade War Crimes Court, deputy war crimes prosecutor, representatives of the Missing Persons Commission, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Missing Persons Commission, the Hague Tribunal and the OSCE Mission to Serbia will attend the exhumation along with UNMIK representatives,  an interim Kosovo institutions delegation and Serbian MUP officials.

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