Added: Mar 25, 2008
From: SerbChetnik
Duration: 2:37
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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nikolewood Says:
Mar 25, 2008 - Nobody seems to care about Serbs anymore although they are the biggest victims here. Everybody is pointing finger at them for no reason just based on stupid propaganda. They are lovely people with their traditions and believe. Please give them a break they are only defending what's theirs .You cant blame them for that.
goranserb1 Says:
Mar 25, 2008 - no everybody likes russia and serbia.. everyone hates usa and albania :)
shqipexx33 Says:
May 26, 2008 - serbs have done more wrong than rightt
seseljsrs Says:
Mar 25, 2008 - The report does well to point out numbers, but it doesn't make clear that the kidnapping and liquidation of Serbs took place in 3 distinct periods - those that took place during the 1 full year of civil conflict in Kosovo before NATO aggression (triggering Serbian police and military action), during the 78-day NATO aggression, and finally, the lion's share during the 9 year occupation under NATO/KFOR. Meanwhile, UNMIK/ICTY/NATO indifference to the victims is the stuff of 10,000 documentaries.