On the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the European Union Mission for the Rule of Law in Kosovo (EULEX) of EULEX in Kosovo has announced that since 2009 it has carried out a total of 692 field operations to find missing persons who include 188 excavations.

According to a press release, it is said that 480 remains have been identified, including 332 missing persons.

Further in the announcement, it is announced that during the period August 2021 - August 2022, EULEX experts participated in 21 field operations, which included nine exhumations, which resulted in the identification of three missing persons.

"Since the beginning of the mandate until today, EULEX has worked tirelessly to find and return the remains of missing persons to their families for a respectable and dignified burial.

Enlightening the fate of missing persons is an ongoing task;

since 2009, the Mission has conducted a total of 692 field operations to locate missing persons, including 188 exhumations.

The remains of 480 individuals have been identified, including 332 missing persons.

During the period August 2021 – August 2022, EULEX experts participated in 21 field operations, which included nine exhumations.

This has resulted in the identification of three missing persons", the announcement states.

Currently, as announced in the announcement, EULEX experts are also working with the Kosovo authorities for the review of all human remains that are stored in the Pristina morgue, as well as related files.

However, as announced in the announcement, in order to make the search for missing persons difficult and to hide the evidence, the perpetrators of those crimes hid the bodies in small clandestine graves or even in cemeteries.

The number of bodies exhumed in five cemeteries is shown below:

Muslim cemetery in Northern Mitrovica, 89

Orthodox cemetery in Arbëri (Pristina), 81

Cemetery of Prizren, 77

Cemetery in Shiroke, 59

Muslim cemetery in Arbëri (Pristina), 49

Likewise, after the war in Kosovo, international and local forensic experts have found a significant number of missing persons in various locations in Kosovo and Serbia, as follows: Brekoc, 121 exhumed bodies;

Old Chickasaw, 112;

Rakosh, 97;

Cyrus, 96;

Higher studies, 72;

Korisha, 72;

Lower Suhodoll, 70;

Old Chikatovo, 68;

Makoc, 63;

Shudoll, 61;

Big pear, 58;

Rudnica, 54;

Suhareke, 54;

Old Cikatovo, 50, Kizhevak, 7 exhumed bodies.

/Telegraph/