- Title: YUGOSLAVIA: UNITED NATIONS DELEGATION CONTINUE TOUR OF KOSOVO.
- Date: 30th April 2000
- Summary: DJAKOVICA, KOSOVO (APRIL 29, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. GV: THE UNITED NATIONS DELEGATION VISITING A CEMETERY (2 SHOTS) 0.15 2. GV/MV/TRACK: VARIOUS OF DELEGATES TALKING TO INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATORS/ WALKING TO MASS GRAVES SITE (3 SHOTS) 0.28 3. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF BODIES BEING EXHUMED (4 SHOTS) 0.47 4. GV: ICTY WORKERS CARRYING A BO
- Embargoed: 15th May 2000 13:00
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- Location: DJAKOVICA AND PRISTINA, KOSOVO
- City:
- Country: Yugoslavia
- Reuters ID: LVA51VY2821A816RLW11SND44T8S
- Story Text: Violence has again flared in Mitrovica in
Kosovo the day after a delegaton from the United Nations
Security Council toured the divided city.
Hundreds of Serbs are reported to have confronted KFOR
peacekeepers who were ferrying 80 people back from an
excursion to the ethnic Albanian-controlled south of the city.
The UN delegation meanwhile spent the day in the town of
Djakovica, watching as International War Crimes investigators
exhumed bodies from the site of a mass grave.
Thousands of people remain missing after the war in
Kosovo.Relatives don't know whether they are being held as
prisoners in Serbia or whether they were killed and buried in
mass graves.
International war crimes investigators are painstakingly
searching potential sites.During the conflict victims were
often buried quickly without having proper details or
identifications confirmed.
A delegation from the United Nations Security Council,
including the Secretary General's special representative
Bernard Kouchner, on Saturday (April 29) visited one site in
the town of Djakovica where investigators were at work.
Bodies are being exhumed from the local cemetery in a bid
to discover whether the remains belong to some of those
reported missing.
Relatives, carrying photographs of loved ones, lined the
route.Around 6000 people remain unaccounted for in Kosovo.
Serb authorities say 965 Kosovar-Albanians are being held in
prison.Last year the International Committee of the Red Cross
put that figure at nearer 2000.
At a news conference later in Pristina members of the
delegation repeated their commitment to establishing a "safe,
secure and stable society".
But even as they were speaking violence flared again in
Mitrovica with reports of clashes between Serbs and KFOR
peacekeeping troops.
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