"Commission is not exonerating Vučić"

"Commission is not exonerating Vučić"

BELGRADE -- "There are 39 unsolved murders of journalists. It is very important, for all our sakes, that we get answers to questions on how they died," says Veran Matić.

"What has been happening every April for the past 15, 20 years led me to thinking we must do more than show up in Svetogorska Street, the scene of the murder of Ćuruvija, call on the government or the police, and demand that these murders are solved by next year," said Matić, who heads the Commission for Investigating Murders of Journalists.

Realizing that the killings would never be solved in this way, Matić said he decided to bring forward the initiative the establish the Commission. "Also, with this we journalists wanted to take part of the responsibility, as well as invest our energy and influence to solve the murders of journalists in Serbia," he told B92 TV.

"They are very important and it is very important to solve all the murders that occurred in the past. Some may be more symbolic, in the sense that killings of public figures occurred. In this case, journalists are representatives of freedom of speech, freedom of the media and if that freedom is killed you will not have relevant information," said Matić.

According to him, there are 39 journalists who have been killed since the 1990s and none of these cases has been solved. Among them there are those killed outside of our borders and the Commission, he said, cannot do much there, but can insist that the cases be solved.

Speaking of the unsolved murder of Dada Vujasinović 20 years ago, Matić said that recently evidence was discovered that had been lost.

"It's a very complicated case because until 2008 it was treated as...