EULEX Justice Spokesperson Kristina Herodes stated Sunday that over 50 locations in Kosovo have been identified in relation to shedding light on the fates of missing persons, adding that intensive investigation in view of the issue will be resumed this year.

Herodes said that since December 2008, EULEX, together with the Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, has carried out 135 field actions that resulted in locating 101 bodies.

The total of 83 bodies were returned to the families, she said for the Kosovska Mitrovica-based radio Kontakt Plus, adding that EULEX has analyzed 700 files which previously belonged to UNMIK and prepared over 600 bones for DNA analysis.

Coordinator of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo-Metohija Milorad Trifunovic told Tanjug that the international factors are not trying hard enough to reveal the truth on missing and kidnapped people.

He believes that the international factors should make Kosovo politicians and officials tell the truth, adding that the current officials of the Kosovo government were commanders in the areas where people were kidnapped and that they should be held accountable according to their command responsibility.

The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo-Metohija is searching for 536 persons who went missing during, after and before the conflicts in the province.