Twenty-seven years after the Kosovo war, more than 1,500 people remain missing. For their families, the war never truly ended because they still do not know where their loved ones are.

You’re right. I checked the official Kosovo government report: Kalludër and Jabukë are villages in the Municipality of Zubin Potok, Kosovo, and the three excavations there recovered remains believed to belong to at least 23 people. (Kryeministri)

So the article should not present those sites as being in Serbia. The five additional locations mentioned in the original article are separate.

Here is the corrected, accusatory version:

The Graves Serbia Cannot Hide Forever: Kosovo’s Search for the Missing

Twenty-seven years after the Kosovo war, more than 1,500 people remain missing. Their families are still waiting for answers while Serbia continues to face questions over what happened to those who disappeared.

Recent excavations in Kalludër and Jabukë, in the Municipality of Zubin Potok, Kosovo, have brought the issue back into focus. Four weeks of excavations at three locations uncovered human remains believed to belong to at least 23 people who may have been victims of enforced disappearance during the Kosovo war.

At one mass grave between Greater and Lesser Kalludër, remains believed to belong to at least 13 people were found. Another site in Jabukë contained remains believed to belong to at least four people, while a second mass grave in Kalludër contained remains believed to belong to at least six people. The remains are now undergoing forensic examination and DNA identification.

But these discoveries also raise a much larger question: after nearly three decades, where are the answers about Kosovo’s missing?

Kosovo institutions have repeatedly called on Serbia to open its state and military archives, arguing that records held by Serbian authorities could help clarify the fate of those who disappeared during the war. Kosovo’s acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti has specifically called for the archives of the Yugoslav Army’s 37th Motorized Brigade to be opened rather than kept classified until 2044.

That is where Serbia’s responsibility cannot simply be brushed aside.

If the Serbian state possesses archives, records or information that could help locate the missing, why should families have to wait another 18 years for access to them?

The issue is not about political rhetoric. It is about families who have spent 27 years without knowing where their loved ones are.

Kosovo’s Ministry of Justice has also raised concerns over alleged intimidation of people in Serbia who may have information about the cases, saying this further complicates efforts to establish the truth and deliver justice.

Meanwhile, Kosovo institutions continue searching, excavating, identifying remains and giving families the answers they have been denied for decades.

The excavations in Zubin Potok are taking place in Kosovo. But the questions about responsibility do not end at Kosovo’s borders.

Serbia must open its archives. It must cooperate fully with investigations into the fate of the missing. And anyone with information about war crimes and enforced disappearances must be able to come forward without fear.

Twenty-seven years is enough. Families deserve names, graves and truth not more classified files, silence and delay.

But Serbia still has questions to answer.