On April 8, Nato showed the world's media reconnaissance images of a suspected mass grave containing an unknown number of bodies.

An Associated Press television crew has since visited the site of the suspected mass grave in the region.

The area of Kosovo to the north-west of Pristina has seen a number of confusing reports of massacres. While exact locations are still not known, there appears to be consistent evidence of killings at a local level.

According to Human Rights Watch, abuses and atrocities took place in this region during 1998 as Yugoslav forces attempted to crush KLA insurgency in the area.

Since the end of the conflict, KLA fighters who have left the mountain areas and returned to their villages have reported that up to 500 people were massacred in this area. They say that Serb units disposed of the bodies of men in village wells and that departing troops have used the delay in K-For entering the province to conceal evidence.