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Отправлено Алексей Чумаков 04:50:30 10/06/2000:
GENEVA (Reuters) — The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that nearly 3,400 people are still missing in Kosovo, the vast majority ethnic Albanians. The total, which includes 300 people, mostly Serbs, who disappeared after the end of fighting between Serb and ethnic Albanian forces, is up from a figure of 2,987 missing reported by the Swiss- runhumanitarian agency in February. The ICRC said the missing comprised 2,018 people, most of them ethnic Albanians, reported to have been arrested by the Yugoslav army or abducted by Serbs, 370 people allegedly abducted by the Kosovo Liberation Army or ethnic Albanians and 980 people whose whereabouts were unknown. Violence has dogged Kosovo since it came under the control of NATO and the United Nations a year ago on June 12 after a NATO-led bombing campaign led to the withdrawal of Serb forces who had been oppressing the province's ethnic Albanianmajority. The Geneva-based ICRC gave the latest figures at a news conference where it announced the launch of its first book of the missing for Kosovo that lists 3,368 persons whose names were provided by families. The 200-page document, listing the names in chronological and alphabetical order, is also available on the ICRC Web site www.familylinks.icrc.org, the agency said. The ICRC's head of Balkans operations, Andreas Wigger, said that many of those reported missing were probably dead and that the agency's rate of success in tracing the missing had fallen. "It is an unfortunate fact that, at a certain stage, most of the peoplereported missing are unfortunately dead," he told the newsconference. In all, the ICRC said 4,941 people were reported missing by their families between January 1998 and May 15 2000. It had clarified the fate of 1,573 people, including 199 confirmed dead and 1,374 confirmed alive, of whom the agency said it hadvisited 1,306 people in prison. Wigger said the ICRC had no figure for the number of people killed in the conflict. The United States has estimated that Serb forces killed about 10,000 Kosovo Albanians between March and June 1999. But Wigger said that most aid agencies and local human rights groups in Kosovo had reduced their estimates of the number of dead or missing to about 4,000 from around 12,000 initially. International investigators said last November that they had unearthed2,108 bodies from nearly 200 mass grave sites inKosovo.
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