On Kosovo’s National Day of Missing Persons, the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) reaffirms its commitment and obligation to support the fulfillment of the right of the families of the 1,621 missing persons to know the truth about the fate of their loved ones.
To do so, EULEX and the NGO Missing Persons Resource Center (MPRC) are organizing a series of information sessions across Kosovo with family members of missing persons from the Kosovo war and its aftermath.
According to a EULEX communique, these MPRC-facilitated sessions serve as a platform for the relatives of missing persons and EULEX experts to openly discuss the Mission’s past and present mandate, the work of different forensic experts, the main challenges encountered by forensic experts in the search for the missing, and the support EULEX provides to its local counterparts at the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) in finding, identifying, and handing over the remains of missing persons to their families…