UNMIK WAITED FOR OPPORTUNE MOMENT TO REVEAL HUMAN REMAINS - KOSOVO SERB LEADER
BBC Monitoring International Reports - April 19, 2005

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Pec, 19 April: The head of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija's division for exhumation and identification, Slavisa Dobricanin, has told FoNet that it is not clear where UNMIK [UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo] representatives got their information that exactly 12 human remains of [ethnic] non-Albanians, most probably Serbs, were found in a cave near Klina, and that they had been killed in 1998.

He said that only after the identification process is completed will we know who the victims were and how they died.

Dobricanin recalled that not far from this location the remains of five Serbs abducted and murdered in this part of the province were also found in 2001.

The leader of the Serb List for Kosovo-Metohija, Oliver Ivanovic, told FoNet that UNMIK representatives had known much earlier that victims killed by Albanian extremists were located in a cave near Klina.

"UNMIK waited for a favourable political moment to make this horrible news public," Ivanovic said, adding that the fact that UNMIK had all the information about the victims of these crimes for so long but decided to keep quiet was very murky.

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1239 gmt 19 Apr 05

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