§ Mr. WilshireTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many bodies of Kosovar Albanians known to have been killed by Kosovan Serbs and Yugoslav police and armed forces since June 1998 have been found. [115333]
§ Mr. VazThe International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has said that over 2,000 bodies have so far been exhumed from 195 grave sites by investigators working on behalf of The Tribunal. This is out of a total of 529 reported grave sites, most of which are still to be investigated. Work on remaining sites will resume in Spring this year. Besides known grave sites, other sites may come to light as work progresses, but a high proportion of bodies may never be recovered given the degree to which Serb forces attempted to destroy evidence.
§ Mr. WilshireTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his estimate of the number of Kosovar Albanians forced out of Kosovo prior to the start of NATO's bombing campaign. [115332]
§ Mr. VazBefore the airstrikes began there were over 210,000 people internally displaced within Kosovo and 70,000 refugees outside Kosovo. The vast majority of the Internally Displaced Persons and 50,000 of the refugees were Kosovo Albanians.