On the Day of Forcibly Disappeared Persons during the war, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, accompanied by Ferdonije Çerkezi—who lost her husband and sons in the last war—paid tribute at the Monument dedicated to persons forcibly disappeared during the war.

He called on the international community to increase pressure on Belgrade to help uncover the fate of other missing persons.

“We pay tribute to all the missing persons, of whom 1,565 are still unaccounted for. The Government Commission for Missing Persons, the Institute of Forensic Medicine, the Kosovo Police, and all institutions of our country are making maximum efforts to clarify the fate of our loved ones, who were taken—alive and dead—by the enemy forces of Milosevic’s Serbia. We must remember that the last one to be buried was a 9-year-old boy, Sinan Daut from Prekaz. We call on international factors to put pressure on official Belgrade to reveal the truth about our missing, as they bear responsibility and know the truth. There are also 11 mass graves in addition to the 5 already discovered, for which Serbia provides no information. It has been publicly stated that there are 16 mass graves in total, and only in the one uncovered in Batajnica, we have 744 exhumed missing persons. In total, around 1,000 Albanians have been found in mass graves in Serbia so far,” he declared.