Batajnica mass graves

The Batajnica mass graves, are graves that were found in 2001 near Batajnica, a suburb of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The graves contained 744 Kosovo Albanians, civilians, killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo War.
The mass graves were found on the training grounds of a Serbian military unit, the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ).
Dead bodies were brought to the site by trucks from Kosovo; most were incinerated before burial. After the war, SAJ restricted investigators' access to the firing range, and continued live-firing exercises whilst forensic teams tried to investigate the massacre.
Background.
Reuters published (in 2020) a number of estimated more than 13,000 people died and missing during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo, that ended in 1999 after NATO air strikes against former Yugoslavia. As Reuters reported, the victims of the war were mainly ethnic Albanians.
Milica Kostić, who is a former researcher at the Humanitarian Law Center and currently working at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, said in 2019 that still estimated over 1,600 people missing after the war of in Kosovo, from them: 1,100 Kosovo Albanians, around 450 Serbs, and over 100 Bosniak and Roma victims.
Discovery of mass graves.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), a human rights non-governmental organisation, documenting human rights violations happened on the territories of former Yugoslavia, said in the dossier "The Concealment of Bodies Operation", that four mass graves were discovered in Serbia: at Batajnica (744 bodies — discovered in 2001), Lake Perućac (84 bodies— discovered in 2001), Petrovo Selo (61 bodies — discovered in 2001), at Rudnica, the village near the border with Kosovo (52 bodies — discovered in 2013).
The HLC said in the dossier "The Concealment of Bodies Operation", that the bodies of Kosovo Albanians were also secretly burned in two locations in Serbia: the Mačkatica Aluminium Complex near Surdulica, the Copper Mining And Smelting Complex in Bor. Also, HLC called the Feronikl Plant in Glogovac, where bodies of Kosovo Albanians were burned, that located in Kosovo's Drenica region.
Press about the covert operation.
As the Gusrdian's diplomatic editor Julian Borger claimed in his article in 2010:
Dejan Anastasijevic, an investigative journalist of the Serbian weekly Vreme, said in 2010 about the bodies found near an SAJ base in Batajnica, that there was the "sanitation" programme, involving the removal of thousands of bodies, that was carried out by Serbia's special counter-terrorist unit, SAJ, to hide war crimes.
Investigation. Vlastimir Djordjevic's trial.
Vlastimir Djordjevic, who was a Serbian deputy interior minister during Kosovo conflict in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, was under trial in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 2010 for his role in crimes against Kosovo Albanians, where he admitted that he knew about transferring bodies from one truck found in Danube, and burned bodies found in the second truck in the Lake Perucac, but he didn't know about actual killings. The two trucks were found with bodies of Kosovo Albanians, one in the Danube river in eastern Serbia in early April 1999, from which bodies were transferred to the police's Special Anti-Terrorist Unit Centre in Batajnica, second truck found in the Lake Perucac in western Serbia also in April 1999, from which bodies were burned nearby by Vlastimir Djordjevic. Vlastimir Djordjevic said in the trial he knew that he must investigate the findings of the two trucks, but didn't initiate investigation, that was illegal.
Batajnica Memorial Initiative.
There was created an online website, the Batajnica Memorial Initiative, to gather funds for creation of the Batajnica Memorial Site to commemorate the killed people. The virtual Batajnica Memorial Initiative is publishing photographs, documentary, data of killed people, whose bodies were found in Batajnica.