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Fate of 1.800 Kosovo inhabitants still unknown
GRACANICA, Jan 29 (Tanjug) - Of the total of 13,681 Kosovo inhabitants who were killed or went missing during the armed clashes from January 1, 1998 to June 14, 1999 and the period after the arrival of international forces till December 2000, light has still not been shed on the fate of 1.800 people, the Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) said in a statement on Friday.
The persons whose fate is still uncertain includes 586 Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians, HLC Executive Director Natasa Kandic said in Gracanica, at a presentation of a report on the results of the census so far of Serb, Roma, Bosniak, Montenegrin, Turkish and other non-Albanian nationalists that were killed or went missing in Kosovo in the period between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2000.
Of the total number of victims (13,681), 10,715 are ethnic Albanians, 2,257 are Serbs, 168 are Roma people, 44 Montenegrins, 27 are Ashkali, 22 Egyptians, 10 Turks, 13 Hungarians, eight Goranians, seven Macedonians, three Russians, while Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia are registered as having two such victims each, and there is one Czech, Russian, Slovak, Italian, French and Algerian victim.
For the time being, it is not possible to determine with certainty the nationality of the remaining 299 persons.
Civilians, 1,462 of them, represent the majority of the Serb, Bosniak, Montenegrin and other non-Albanian victims.
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