European experts present at a possible mass grave in southern Serbia

(B2) Forensic experts from the European mission EULEX Kosovo have been deployed to investigate a possible mass grave in the Medveđa region in southern Serbia. According to information received by Kosovo's government commission on missing persons, an unknown number of Kosovo Albanian victims from 1998-1999 may be buried there, a statement from EULEX said. Alan Robinson, Deputy Head of Forensic Medicine at Eulex, confirmed this deployment explaining that the "role (of European experts) is very clear: to act as observers and to ensure that the appropriate methodology of scientific medicine is employee during the operation. "Our experts" are engaged - it is specified at EULEX HQ - on several sites in Vučitrn, Mitrovica, Ðakovica and Prizren. In 2011, the remains of 51 missing persons were identified and returned to their families. NB: after these events of 1998-1999, the valley of Precevo was the theater at the beginning of 2000 of an action of the Army of Liberation of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UCPMB) which wanted to attach these localities to Kosovo