"Warrant for Serbs aimed at minimizing KLA crimes"

"Warrant for Serbs aimed at minimizing KLA crimes"

BELGRADE -- Ruling SNS party MP Milovan Drecun reacted on Wednesday to the Interpol arrest warrant for MP Momir Stojanovic and a group of Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo.

Drecun, who chairs the Parliamentary Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, said it was "not by chance that it came at the time when a special court for crimes committed by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is being established."

An indictment has been raised before the basic court in Djakovica in Kosovo against 16 Serbs and Montenegrins and one Albanian, and they are all charged with crimes committed against (Albanian) civilians in the territory of Reka Kec in April 1999.

A red international arrest warrant was issued for them via Interpol Office of the UN Administration in Kosovo.

Drecun noted that the issuance of the Interpol warrant coincides with intensified pressure by the West on Pristina to adopt a law on the establishment of a special court, which should try KLA members for war crimes committed against Serbs and other non-Albanians.

Raising an indictments against Serbs, minimizes and plays down the formation of a special court and it is aimed at converting the trial of KLA (into the trial of Serbs), Drecun underlined.

In this sense, he pointed to the issue of alleged accountability of Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic for the crimes committed in the territory of Reka ??Kec near Djakovica.

Furthermore, the Basic Court in Djakovica, which deemed it unnecessary to investigate a mass grave of Serb victims in the territory of Djakovica and remained silent on the issue, is now raising an indictment against MP Stojanovic and a group of...