Serbian mass grave "holds up to 500" Kosovo victims

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Source: Reuters

BELGRADE, June 4 (Reuters) - Serbia will open a mass grave on Tuesday believed to contain up to 500 Albanian victims of the Kosovo war, fresh evidence of Serb atrocities as the U.N. decides whether to grant the province independence.

The exhumation will take place at an abandoned quarry in no-man's land between Serbian and Kosovo checkpoints on the 2 km (1.2 mile) wide boundary line.

Authorities believe the bodies were originally buried elsewhere, then dug up, collected, and dumped at the quarry on June 3, 1999, a senior Serbian official told Reuters.

That was a week before NATO called a halt to its 78-day bombing campaign over Serbia and Slobodan Milosevic pulled his forces from the territory, which became a U.N. protectorate.

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