Kosovo honors its wartime missing; 1,650 still not yet found
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April 27, 2018
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — With flowers, tears and bowed heads, the citizens of Kosovo held their annual commemoration day for the 1,650 people still unaccounted for since the country's 1998-99 war.
People gathered Friday at the Grieving Valley in the village of Meja, 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of the capital Pristina, where 19 years ago 376 Albanian civilians were killed by the Serb army and paramilitary troops.
The war left some 10,000 dead and ended after NATO intervened on behalf of the region's Albanian majority.
Victims' family members expressed anger that Kosovo's post-war governme...
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