Reference :
V-P-XZ-E-00004
Date :
29/06/2014
Caption :
Rezallë/Rezala. Blerim Rukolli, whose brother has been missing for fifteen years reflects at an impromptu cemetery built upon the execution site of the Rezallë/Rezala event along the main road in the village. According to the family, on the 5th of April 1999, Serbian soldiers entered the village and separated the men and boys from the women; the men and boys were later killed. Thirty-seven persons have been reported as unaccounted for in relation to this event.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
In December 2013, a gravesite in Rudnica, Raska, Southern Serbia, was located in an old quarry, after years of search. The site was discovered thanks to the joint efforts of relevant stakeholders within the frame of the ICRC chaired Working Group on Missing Persons. Satellite images from the period of March - June 1999 shared within that mechanism were of critical relevance to determining the location of the site. Fifty-two (52) sets of human remains and a number of body parts belonging to persons who went missing during the 1998-99 Kosovo armed conflict were exhumed between December and June 2014. Forensic experts from the Kosovo Department of Forensic Medicine, EULEX (European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo), ICMP (International Commission on Missing Persons) and ICRC participated to and oversaw, as active observers, the works carried out at the site under the authority of the Serbian War Crimes prosecution. Between August and October 2014 all remains were handed over to EULEX on three separate occasions.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
4000x2667
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
