DOSIJE: Uklanjanje dokaza o zločinima tokom rata na Kosovu : operacija skrivanja tela
DOSSIER: Removal of Evidence of Crimes during the War in Kosovo: Body-Hiding Operation

Author(s): Nemanja Stjepanović
Contributor(s): Milica Kostić (Editor), Predrag Ivanović (Editor)
Subject(s): Law and Transitional Justice, Peace and Conflict Studies, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Fond za humanitarno pravo
Keywords: mass-graves; Body-Hiding;war crimes trials;Kosovo war;
Summary/Abstract: From 2001 until today, mass graves with 941 bodies of Albanians killed in Kosovo in 1999, mostly civilians who died outside the fighting, have been discovered on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. According to the UNMIK Office on Missing Persons and Forensic Medicine (KNLSM), 744 Kosovo Albanian bodies were found in Batajnica near Belgrade, at least 61 bodies in Petrovo Selo, and a mass grave with 84 bodies near Lake Perucac. Subsequently, at least 52 more bodies were discovered in the Rudnica mass grave. From the statements and testimonies of witnesses, as well as from the available documentation from that time, it is evident that the term "remediation of the terrain" was widely used within political, military and police structures to denote illegal removal of corpses and their burial mass graves, with the aim of covering up crimes.

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