Reference :
V-P-XZ-E-00041
Date :
13/09/2014
Caption :
Merdare, administrative boundary line between Kosovo and Serbia. The Kosovo Security Force (KSF) members load coffins into military trucks. The coffins contain remains of those exhumed at a gravesite in Rudnica, Raska, Southern Serbia and were part of the second group out of three groups of human remains to be transferred from the site to Pristina.
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
