Belgrade and Pristina to jointly investigate mass grave

Belgrade and Pristina plan to hold a joint investigation at the site of a suspected mass grave from the 1999 Kosovo war near the south Serbian town of Medvedja. 

Missing persons commissions from both Serbia and Kosovo, along with officials from the Serbian war crimes prosecutor’s office and the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, are visiting the site of the suspected mass grave near the border on Wednesday.

The issue of missing persons and mass graves in Serbia was also raised recently by Belgrade’s war crimes prosecutor after a confession from a top Serbian official charged by Hague Tribunal, Vlastimir Djordjevic, who said last month that he knew about graves containing the bodies of Albanian civilians on Serbian territory.

Several international organisations, including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, expressed concerns earlier this year that the search for more than 1,700 people who remain missing since the conflict between Serbian forces and Kosovo rebels had “stalled”.