Kosovo discovers remains of 23 people in mass grave excavation

At least 23 people were violently abducted and executed during the 1990s war; approximately 1,600 remain missing from the conflict.

In the hills of northern Kosovo, excavation crews have unearthed the remains of at least 23 people from three suspected mass graves near Zubin Potok — a discovery that arrives more than a quarter-century after a war that killed 13,000 and scattered thousands more into silence. The dead are believed to be ethnic Albanians abducted from Mitrovica and executed in the spring of 1999, their identities still unconfirmed, their families still waiting. Three men have been arrested on war crimes suspicion, and DNA testing has begun — slow instruments of justice applied to wounds that have never fully c

Kosovo discovers remains of 23 people in mass grave excavation

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