The Institute of Forensic Medicine, under the escort of the Kosovo Security Forces, is transporting the remains of 10 Albanian civilians for burial.
These 10 remains are identified from the 11 discovered and belong to the Kralan massacre.
Additionally, on April 2, it marks 26 years since the Serbian military forces killed 86 Albanian civilians in Kralan, Gjakova.
Serbian police forces had separated hundreds of young men and men from 1500 Albanians who had fled to escape the Serbian crimes, while women, children, and the elderly were ordered to go to Albania.
Just two days later, on April 4, a large number of the men and boys who had been held in a field, surrounded by tanks, without water or food, were released. Out of the hundreds, 86 were detained, including 11 minors.
The Humanitarian Law Fund (FDH) had filed a criminal report in 2013 against several Yugoslav Army officers for war crimes in Kralan.
On this occasion, it was announced that the bodies of 18 young men and men who had been detained were found in a mass grave near the Peruča lake, in Bajina Bašta, Serbia.
Regarding the Serbian crimes in Kralan, in December 2014, Arifete Bytyqi, the head of the “Family and Hope” Association, sent a letter to the chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal. On behalf of the families of the 86 victims of the massacre, Bytyqi requested the investigation of the killing of the 86 Albanian civilians by the Serbian police on April 4, 1999, in Kralan.
