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Remains of 46 Kosovo Albanian civilians killed by Serb forces in 1999 are reburied

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Ethnic Albanian woman weep next to a coffin draped with the Albanian flag containing the remains of her relative killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war in the town of Mala Krusa during the funeral ceremony of 19 ethnic Albanians on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The victims were killed in two separate rampages by Serbs forces in town of Suva Reka and Mala Krusa just days after NATO began a bombing campaign to end an onslaught by Serbia on separatist ethnic Albanians. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (The Associated Press)

Ethnic Albanian women weep during the funeral ceremony of 19 ethnic Albanians killed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war in the town of Mala Krusa on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The victims were killed in two separate rampages by Serbs forces in town of Suva Reka and Mala Krusa just days after NATO began a bombing campaign to end an onslaught by Serbia on separatist ethnic Albanians. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (The Associated Press)

Ethnic Albanian women cry on top of a coffin draped with the Albanian flag containing the remains of ethnic Albanians killed during 1998-99 Kosovo war in the town of Suva Reka during the funeral ceremony on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The victims were killed in two separate rampages by Serbs forces in town of Suva Reka and Mala Krusa just days after NATO began a bombing campaign to end an onslaught by Serbia on separatist ethnic Albanians. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) (The Associated Press)

The remains of 46 ethnic Albanian civilians killed 15 years ago by Serb forces have been buried in western Kosovo.

One funeral took place Wednesday in the village of Mala Krusa, where 112 boys and men were killed when Serb forces rounded them up, sprayed them with bullets and then set them on fire. The slayings came in revenge for NATO's bombing of Serbia.

Another 27 civilian victims were buried in the town of Suva Reka after being unearthed from a mass grave in Serbia where they were taken in an attempt to cover up the killings.

The two incidents were among the worst atrocities during Kosovo's separatist war that left some 10,000 dead, most of them ethnic Albanians.

NATO's 78-day bombing campaign ended the conflict in 1999.