Today is the International Day of Missing Persons. When it has been 22 years since the end of the war in Kosovo, more than 1600 people are officially listed as missing.

This day will be marked with several activities by the Coordinating Council of Family Associations of the Disappeared in Kosovo in coordination with the Governmental Commission for Missing Persons.

The commemorative march starts at 09:30, from "Zahir Pajaziti" square, to reach the Lapidary dedicated to missing persons, near the building of the Assembly of Kosovo.

Placing flowers at the tombstone for missing persons begins at 10:00. The visit and homage at the location of the reception of mortal remains during the repatriation process near the border crossing point in Merdare starts from 12:00.

After the end of the war in Kosovo, in 1999, about 6.500 people were missing. Since that time, several exhumations have been carried out in mass graves in Kosovo and Serbia, and so far about 70 percent of the missing have been found.

The last excavations were done in May, in the mass cemetery in Kizhevak of Rashka in Serbia, where the remains of nine Kosovars, killed during the war, were found.