Murder of Serb teens in Kosovo still unpunished

Murder of Serb teens in Kosovo still unpunished

BELGRADE -- Serbia on Wednesday marks the 11th anniversary of a terrorist attack in Kosovo when two Serb teenagers were murdered and four more wounded.

The incident happened on the bank of the Bistrica River in the Serb enclave of Goraždevac near the town of Peć.

A group of teenagers and young adults was attacked from an ambush, and the killers, who used automatic weapons to fire a total of 90 bullets, remain unknown to this day.

Ivan Jovović, aged 19, and Pantelija Dakić, 13, were killed in the attack, while Marko Bogićević, 12, Dragana Srbljak, 13, Bogdan Bukumirić, 15, and Đorđe Ugrenović, 20, were seriously wounded.

In its report on the anniversary of the crime, Tanjug noted that the shots were fired from the direction of the ethnic Albanian village of Zahač and that after the incident, the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, said that "a number of unidentified individuals hiding in the bushes opened fire from Kalashnikov rifles at around fifty boys and girls spending their summer holidays in the area. At the moment of the attack, the children were bathing in the river."

The crime in Goraždevac was condemned by heads of UNMIK and KFOR and officials of the EU, U.S., France, Russia, Kosovo and former State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, which called for a meeting of the UN Security Council.

Representatives of the international community promised that they would "turn every stone and find the individuals who committed this crime". 11 years later, "nobody has yet been held accountable for the murders and wounding of children," Tanjug said.

The Kosovo police announced that they interrogated 75 witnesses and searched around...