Prishtina, 03 August 2026, dtt-net.com – Kosovan forensic experts have found human remains of four bodies at least so far in the new mass grave found two days ago in the Serb-predominantly northern municipality of Zubin Potok, after the first one found a week ago in the same municipality, according to the Kosovo Minister of Interior Xhelal Sveçla.
The minister said the second grave, in the village of Jabukë, also believed to be of Albanian war missing persons slaughtered by Serbia forces in April 1999, is less than 1 km from the first one in the village of Kalludër.
“I came from the location where the mass grave was discovered. So far, four bodies have been discovered, which after the execution have been thrown in a limestone hole,” he told reporters on late Monday.
“The teams of forensics, law enforcement of the Republic of Kosovo, are doing their job as best as they can,” he said.
“The distance between the first and the second mass grave crime is about 900 meters,” Sveçla said.
At the same time, in the first mass grave remains of at least six bodies are uncovered so far, while exhumations continue.
Authorities suspect that remains in both mass graves belong to 23 Albanian civilians of Mitrovica area abducted by Serbia forces in April 1999.
Sveçla said that the public should wait for conclusion of all exhumation at both mass graves for a clear and final answer over the identity of victims.
The minister once more called Serbia government to open its archives over war crimes its forces then led by the late Slobodan Milosevic committed on civilians during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.
Three Serb suspects are arrested so far by Kosovan police over the two mass graves.
Nearly 13,000 Albanian civilians were massacred by Serbia forces, 20,000 girls and women raped, 120,000 houses destroyed and more than 800 000 deported forcibly to Albania and North Macedonia during the 1998-1999 war of independence from Serbia.
More than 1500 civilians are still missing, of which more than 500 Serbs believed to be killed by members of Kosovo Albanian guerilla, KLA, in revenge.
