Kosova: Registration of Victims
Information on killed or ‘disappeared’ peoples to be published in ‘Kosovo Memory Book’.
Below is an article published by B92:
The Humanitarian Law Center has so far registered 13,472 victims—9,260 Albanians and 2,488 Serbs— in Kosovo between 1998 and 2000.
The Center dismisses media reports that it has so far registered 12,000 Serb victims, adding that the victims include 9,260 Albanians, 2,488 Serbs, 470 of other ethnicities, and 1,254 unidentified victims.
Information on 8,879 victims has thus far been processed completely and shows the circumstances in which the victims were killed, died or disappeared. They include 7,707 ethnic Albanians, 822 Serbs and 350 victims of other ethnic origin.
The Center states that all the victims were living in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.
Of the 4,593 victims the Center has still to fully processed, 1,666 are Serbs (686 of whom were members of the army or police, 590 civilians and 390 of unknown status), the statement reads.
There are 1,553 ethnic Albanians among the unprocessed victims and 120 members of other ethnic communities, while the ethnicity of the remaining 1,254 victims is still unconfirmed.
The Humanitarian Law Center adds that it received help from the unions of the victims’ families, and that it used information and facts from trials at The Hague and national courts.
The Missing Persons Commission has furnished the Humanitarian Law Center with the information at its disposal, while the Defense Ministry accepted cooperation with this NGO in September 2008, providing it with information about army members who disappeared or were killed in Kosovo.
The Interior Ministry has yet to decide on the Center’s plea to provide it with its information on murdered or missing police members, the statement reads.
The Center has announced that by the end of January 2009, it will begin with a public presentation and check on the registered victims’ data, both in Serbia and in Kosovo, when it expects to correct any mistakes and fill in the remaining missing data.
The information will be published in three volumes of the Kosovo Memory Book and will be available on the Internet.
The Humanitarian Law Center has so far registered 13,472 victims—9,260 Albanians and 2,488 Serbs— in Kosovo between 1998 and 2000.
The Center dismisses media reports that it has so far registered 12,000 Serb victims, adding that the victims include 9,260 Albanians, 2,488 Serbs, 470 of other ethnicities, and 1,254 unidentified victims.
Information on 8,879 victims has thus far been processed completely and shows the circumstances in which the victims were killed, died or disappeared. They include 7,707 ethnic Albanians, 822 Serbs and 350 victims of other ethnic origin.
The Center states that all the victims were living in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.
Of the 4,593 victims the Center has still to fully processed, 1,666 are Serbs (686 of whom were members of the army or police, 590 civilians and 390 of unknown status), the statement reads.
There are 1,553 ethnic Albanians among the unprocessed victims and 120 members of other ethnic communities, while the ethnicity of the remaining 1,254 victims is still unconfirmed.
The Humanitarian Law Center adds that it received help from the unions of the victims’ families, and that it used information and facts from trials at The Hague and national courts.
The Missing Persons Commission has furnished the Humanitarian Law Center with the information at its disposal, while the Defense Ministry accepted cooperation with this NGO in September 2008, providing it with information about army members who disappeared or were killed in Kosovo.
The Interior Ministry has yet to decide on the Center’s plea to provide it with its information on murdered or missing police members, the statement reads.
The Center has announced that by the end of January 2009, it will begin with a public presentation and check on the registered victims’ data, both in Serbia and in Kosovo, when it expects to correct any mistakes and fill in the remaining missing data.
The information will be published in three volumes of the Kosovo Memory Book and will be available on the Internet.
