Marigona Shabiu

Kosovo on Thursday commemorated its annual Day of Forcibly Disappeared Persons with events intended to remember those who went missing during the 1998-99 war and to reiterate demands for justice.

Yellow flowers were laid out to form the number 1620 in Pristina's main square on Wednesday in memory of those who are still missing from the 1998-99 war, as Kosovo marked its National Missing Persons Day.

"It took us a long time to get used to the life there. We stayed there because we had no other choice," she said.

She only managed to go back to Kosovo 18 years later.

"I wanted to return earlier, but we didn't have anything. I wish we could have built a house here. They [the Kosovo authorities], promised to build some houses for us, but changed their minds," she explained.