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No evidence of mass grave on Rudnica-Majdan site

Rudnica, 8 June 2007

Investigating judge of the Belgrade District Court’s War Crimes Council Milan Dilparic stated today that on the Rudnica-Majdan site, around 10 kilometres away from Raska, no evidence of a mass grave has been found in the past four days.

Dilparic told the press in Rudnica that no evidence or any human remains were found, adding that UNMIK representatives, as well as geologists and anthropologists, were present while the terrain was searched. He stressed that their work on this location is completed and added that during the search the police from Raska secured the site even when the search team was not in the field so that no one had access to the site.

President of the Serbian government Committee on Missing Persons Veljko Odalovic said that a dilemma that had disturbed the public for quite some time has finally been resolved and added that apart from international community representatives, also present during the search were representatives of the Kosovo government Committee on Missing Persons, who were able to see for themselves that the entire matter was taken most seriously.

UNMIK representative Krasimir Nikolov said that the search proved there are no indications of a mass grave in Rudnica, which however does not mean that UNMIK will not demand a continuation of the terrain investigation.

The search began four days ago and its aim was to determine whether a mass grave was created there during the 1999 NATO bombing.

The searched location is situated in a disused mine between the Serbian police and Kfor checkpoints on the administrative border line between Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija.