Following explosive revelations by prominent Serbian human rights activist Nataša Kandić, Ahmet Grajçevci, head of the Kosovar Council for Missing Persons and War Crimes, is demanding that Belgrade immediately open its military archives. The outcry follows new intelligence pointing to a suspected mass grave containing the bodies of missing Kosovo Albanians at the Pasuljanske Livade military training ground inside Serbia.
Speaking during an appearance on FIVE on RTV Dukagjini, Grajçevci acknowledged that while Kandić’s report was the first time this specific location had been publicly named, his council views the information as highly credible given her deep intelligence network within Serbia.
Systematic Concealment and the Prokuplje Military Polygon
Grajçevci emphasized that the choice of state-controlled military facilities was a deliberate tactic used by the Milošević regime to ensure war crimes could remain permanently hidden from the international community.
- The Pasuljanske Livade Site: Grajçevci stated he has no doubt the site contains human remains, noting that Kandić likely secured direct leaks from high-ranking individuals and military insiders within the Serbian defense structures.
- The Prokuplje Connection: The council head revealed that parallel data points directly to the Prokuplje military polygon as another major, unexcavated mass grave.
- The Logistics of Death: According to accounts from Serbian military personnel themselves, entire transport trucks were systematically emptied at these bases. Grajçevci noted that the regime moved both the living and the dead across the border; while thousands of living Albanian detainees were tracked as far as Prokuplje, their subsequent locations and ultimate fates remain entirely unrecorded.
Investigative Targets for Missing Persons (June 2026 Registry)
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Primary New Site --> Pasuljanske Livade (Serbian Military Training Ground).
Secondary Nexus --> Prokuplje Military Polygon (Reported truck dump site).
Whistleblower Source--> Nataša Kandić (Humanitarian Law Center).
Institutional Stance--> Belgrade holds absolute chain-of-command accountability.
Critical Anomaly --> Unaccounted missing persons forcibly taken from prison systems.
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Belgrade’s Absolute Command and Administrative Responsibility
Grajçevci reiterated that because these mass disappearances and summary executions were carried out through official state, military, and police structures, the Serbian government is legally and morally obligated to provide the coordinates of these secret burial grounds.
Ahmet Grajçevci: “This was not the work of rogue actors. The killings, transportation, and subsequent burials were executed via a strict administrative chain of command. We even have hundreds of documented cases of individuals who went missing directly from inside the formal prison system after the war ended. The state of Serbia knows exactly where these people are, and it is time they are forced to answer.”
The council’s demands add heavy pressure onto the ongoing transitional justice dialogue in the Balkans. With local organizations compiling fresh registries of state-engineered cover-ups, international human rights groups are increasingly calling on Brussels to condition Serbia’s ongoing regional integration pathways on the complete transparency of its active military training fields.
