The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that it has identified around two thousand Kosovo Albanians being held in jails in Serbia.

The ICRC said that some of the prisoners were moved during the three-month NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, while others were transferred while Serbian forces were withdrawing from the province.

The head of the ICRC for the Balkans Pierre Kraehenbuehl said that they could not rule out the possibility that there were more detainees who'd not been identified so far.

Kosovo Albanian leaders say there are five-thousand ethnic Albanian prisoners held by Serbian authorities.