Twenty on Hunger Strike Over Fate of Missing Kosovo Serbs GRACANICA, Jul 20, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) About 20 Kosovo Serbs pursued a hunger strike on Thursday in front of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) here, demanding answers about the fate of 1,300 Serbs missing in the province. "We have been striking since Tuesday to request information from the international community that would allow us to find some of the 1,300 missing people who were kidnapped," said strike organizer Milorad Spasic. "We are sure that some of them are still alive," said Spasic, who is also the president of the Association of Families of Missing People in Gracanica. Spasic is also demanding that Pristina and Belgrade exchange information on the possible whereabouts of the missing people. "We will continue until we get good news, some hope," said Spasic, reclined on a mattress under a tree to escape the searing heat. Spasic's son and son-in-law have been missing since May 1998. About 1,300 Kosovo Serbs and 2,500 Albanians have gone missing since the start of the 1998-99 conflict in the breakaway Yugoslav province, as well as since the arrival of the multinational KFOR peacekeeping force in June 1999. The families of the missing Serbs accuse the now disbanded Kosovo Revolutionary Army (KLA), the province's rebel army, of kidnapping them and most likely killing them. Spasic suspects that ethnic Albanians are holding Serbs in secret prisons located both in Kosovo and Albania. But there is no proof that Serbs are being held in secret prisons in the UN-administered province, said UNMIK spokeswoman Susan Manuel. Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is currently attempting to meet with two former KLA leaders -- former rebel political leader Hashim Thaci and military commander Agim Ceku -- to discuss the fate of the missing. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) Serbian News Network - SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/