"I hope he was dead and not alive", says Ibush Berisha every time he talks about his son who disappeared in the war of 1998-99.

Daughter, son, wife, mother... all dead. He has not left Besnikun without looking for him for 25 years, but to no avail.

The 18-year-old from Bardhi i Madh tells through tears about the terrible night of April 1999, XNUMX.

In an interview for KosovaPress, he tells how the Serbian military forces expelled them from their homes, ordering them to head towards Albania.

The sad sight of the barefoot and naked children will never leave his mind.

After nearly two days on the road, after midnight they had arrived at the border point at Qafë Morinë. In the neutral zone controlled by the Serbian army, as Berisha says, the whole family fell into a mine.  

Only he and Dritoni, his son, escaped from this explosion. The bodies of others were barely found. They are still looking for the faithful.

The Berisha family settled in Kukës, Albania. The next day, the 70-year-old went out to look for Besnik, about whom there is no information for more than two decades.

The mother and wife were buried in Kukës, while the two children were later buried in Kosovo.

After the end of the war, they were the first family to return to the village and since then they have been seeking justice for the crime committed by the Serbian army.

In the last war in Kosovo, over six thousand people disappeared. Of them, 1.600 are still missing and more than 800 people were displaced during the years 1998-1999.

Kosovo continues to ask Serbia to reveal their location, but without success.

The head of the Governmental Commission for Missing Persons, Andin Hoti, tells KosovaPress in which locations in Serbia it has been excavated during the past year.

Meanwhile, within the territory of Kosovo, more than 20 locations were excavated, where 34 people were identified.

Bekim Blakaj, who leads the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Kosovo, considers that there has been no progress during the past year.

The relatives demand that internationals put pressure on Serbia, says the chairman of the Coordinating Council of Relatives of Missing Persons, Ahmet Grajqevci.

Kosovo aims to return to several locations this year, while excavations are expected to begin in Istog and Mitrovica.

Ibush Berisha from Bardhi i Madh calls on local institutions to treat the issue of missing persons seriously.

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