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ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR: Kosovo is faced with another social issue, this is mostly because of war. Switzerland's TV reports many families separated during the fighting are searching for answers over the fate of their loved ones. Here is January Powell with the story.
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JAN POWELL, LEMAN BLEU TV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At the height of the Kosovo conflict, the separation of men and boys became notorious; some were prisoners; some met death. Hundreds of families still don't know for sure what happened to their loved ones.
This man and his wife will never forget the day in 1999, when the police came to their village and the men including their two sons were taken to an upstairs room in their house. The women, children, and elderly were order to leave for Albania, there was no word of their sons since.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): When we came back from Albania, we saw our houses. I couldn't believe it. Horrible and empty, without our sons, what could we do? She was crying, I was crying. The children were crying, where are our fathers?
POWELL: To help people like this man, the International Committee of the Red Cross has compiled a list of persons that have been reported missing to them by families desperate for the news -- good or bad. It's called The Book Of The Missing. And it contains 3,500 names of every ethnic origin: Albanian, Serb, Roma and Bosnian. The list is used to trace and double check information from the police, detention centers, hospitals, morgues, grave yards.
The news is not always good, one man was missing since the war the family found out what happened to him; he was executed along with dozens of others and buried in an anonymous grave. His body was exhumed and identified months later, knowing what happened to a loved one will not bring them back but it is a vital step in the grieving process, a psychologist explains.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): When someone dies, the first step is to deny it and say no, it is not true, not possible. After six months, a year, but afterwards there's the next phase and you can get on with your life, this is called the grieving process. But when somebody is missing and you do not know what's happened, you are blocked, you cannot go through the process. POWELL: Finding out the truth, however grim, is the only way that hundreds of families in Kosovo will be able to put the war behind them.
This is Jan Powell in Geneva, Switzerland for the CNN WORLD REPORT.
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