Kosovo - UN / KFOR : where are over 3000 missed serbs?

Thousands of Kosovo Serbs are still listed as missing -- nine years after NATO TERROR began bombing the former Yugoslavia. The relatives of some of the victims are still searching for bodies. Russia Today met with some of them, and heard of their desperate search to find the remains of missing loved ones.


Missing Albanians were the official trigger for NATO to attack Slobodan Milosovic's Yugoslavia. Nine years on and still nothing has been heard of the whereabouts of hundreds of missing people from that campaign.

A monument in Kosovska Mitrovica was erected for the missing people. They're the ones nobody is talking about. All the names on the monument are Serbian.

Each morning Brakus Strahinja comes to this small office in Kosovska Mitrovica looking for information about his brother who went missing three months after the NATO bombardment. He's lost hope he could still be alive. But still prays one day he'll have a body to bury.

"After the Serbs left our village, my brother went back to see how his house was. We don't know what happened because nobody ever heard from him again. Everybody in the town loved him. He was good to his Albanian and Serbian neighbours. They had no reason to hurt him," Strahinja says.

Dragan Janackovic's father refused to leave his Serb village after all the residents fled during the NATO bombing. He begged him to leave but his father was convinced nothing would happen to him.

"I heard various versions of what happened to my father. One was that he was burnt in one of his houses. Another was that they killed him while he was looking after his cattle. But what I think happened in reality is that one of his neighbours kidnapped and then killed him," Dragan said.

The office that deals with missing Serbs from Kosovska Mitrovica is only one man - Milorad Trifunovic. His brother too has been missing for years. Only his personal motivation - and desperate faith - keeps him going.

"There are 454 unidentified bodies in the morgue in Pristina. We provided DNA samples but they didn't do anything with them. Nobody knows whose bodies they are. I'm also convinced the Albanians are selling body parts of Serbs who were kidnapped or who've gone missing. I can't tell it to the families because they still live in hope," Trifunovic says.

More than 3,000 Serbs are estimated to still be missing in Kosovo....

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[Jakili04]

I hope that God will punish them all.. starting with Richard Holbruk and Madlen Albright..not to mention Tachi, Ashari.. God damn them!

[loukash88]

Poland support serbians people in Kosovo!99% population of Poland support serbians not muslims there. Only ass licking gov makes fool of us nobody in Poland dont wanna muslims in Europe

[YAUJTAwarrior]

@Jakili04 why not start talking about the others killed by serbs?Bosnians,albanians,croat­ians?Yes lets start talking about them

[microfanka]

why is NATO is bombing us , I dont know why EUROP PEOPLE is stand on side of USA , this fucking USA brain he dont know where is Serbia /eX Yugoslavia

he dont know who is USA President and WHY US he fuck us all last 20 years he fuck us but I dont know WHY , and I dont know WHY IS OLD SFRJ is take apart , this is not OK , I JUST WANT TO SAY I NOT HATE AND EX YUGOSLAVIAN PEOPLE , CROATIAN is same , HE LIKE US HE MUST BE OUR ALLY , this war is not people is want this war is from OUTSIDE FROM USA

[Markan72]

AND: i think you mean "hotbloodeD", not "hotbloodeT"? 20% illiterates on the albanian side in kosovo.... it is not the best to boycott everything(YU-schools,...)...^­^

[Markan72]

OK,this is the poorest comment i've ever seen. No serb, no albanian or noone else should think like that. I hope god will punish you and the ones who stand by you. Do you think you are on the right way to heaven? The serbs which are missed are also children, women and popes. What have they done? If they are dead, the hell is awaiting their murderers, not them...