Cave May Holds Remains of 500 Killed in Kosovo from 1998-99; Unrest Bubbles in the Occupied Province

About 500 Serbs and 200 other non-Albanians remain missing from the period of the KLA's reign of terror in the late '90's. All are believed to have been kidnapped and killed, and the bodies of some may have just been discovered in a cave near Klina, 30 miles west of Pristina, reports The Scotsman.

According to the paper, UNMIK today announced that the cave had probably been used "...to secretly dispose of human remains, and could be related to the disappearances" of the missing Serbs. The UN-run Office on Missing Persons and Forensics has begun excavating the cave and its surrounding area.

In other Kosovo news, Enver Haradinaj, brother of incarcerated Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj, was gunned down Friday in what NATO called a "clan dispute." The Hague let Ramush off to attend the funeral, held in his clan base of Glodjan, 90 km west of the capital. Enver was buried between two other brothers killed during the war. Another brother and war veteran, Daut, is currently serving a five-year sentence for "...the torture and killing of members of [a] rival ethnic Albanian rebel group." And so it goes...

Meanwhile, Albanian publisher and new political contender Veton Surroi, considered by the West to be a rare voice of reason untainted by war crimes concerns, suffered last night a bomb asttack on his party's office in Pristina, injuring 3.

These latest developments, representing more of the same for Kosovo, cast further doubts on whether the province can realistically expect independence talks anytime soon.