""My mother and sisters were killed on that day. For 26 years, I have not known where their bodies are buried. Every time I see a pit, I think they might be lying there," Gashi says. For more than two decades, he has been haunted by the feeling that the truth could lie right beneath his feet, but remains out of reach."
"The Gashi family originally had a total of 22 missing relatives. The fate of 14 of them remains unclear to this day. Bekim Gashi and other family members took part in exhumations and conducted years of legal proceedings in Belgrade without any clear conclusion. "We went to Belgrade in the hope of getting information. The process took six years. In the end, there was no result," he says."
Bekim Gashi has no graves to mourn and keeps only photographs of his mother Hyra and four sisters who disappeared after a massacre in Ternje on March 25, 1999. He has not known where their bodies are buried for 26 years and has participated in exhumations and protracted legal proceedings in Belgrade without results. Around 4,600 people were missing when the Kosovo War ended in June 1999; roughly 1,600 cases remain unresolved, including about 1,100 Kosovo Albanians and 500 Serbs, Roma and others. Relatives continue to live in uncertainty, and recent talks between Serbian and Kosovar state commissions in Shkodra offer new hope.
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