Association calls for truth about Albanian, Serb victims

BELGRADE - The Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo-Metohija from 1998 to 2000 has welcomed the request of the War Crime Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade to investigate another location in Batajnica, Belgrade suburban area, which could be a mass grave of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1999 conflicts in Kosovo-Metohija.

The Association of Families of Murdered Serbs and other Non-Albanians said that it has never divided civilians according to their nationality and creed, but it always advocated the acceleration of the process of revealing the truth about all missing persons, adding that villains eventually face justice.

Moreover, the Association has put a question to the War Crime Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade and the EULEX chief prosecutor in Pristina why they are not searching for another more than 520 missing Serbs and non-Albanians whose fate is still unknown.

Due to double standards when it comes to Serb and Albanian victims and their lack of interest to investigate the locations of potential graves in central Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija, only nine kidnapped Serbs were exhumed and identified last year, and in 2014 no person from the list of missing persons has been identified, the Association's statement reads.

The families of Kosovo victims are exhausted from the 16-year waiting and despair and they are imploring competent institutions to remember the Serb victims and help the process of revealing the truth about them speed up, the statement reads.

Photo Tanjug, S. Ilic (illustration, archive)