No investigation into murder of journalist Afrim Maliqi

He was killed on December 2nd, 1998, in Prishtina, in the Sunny Hill neighborhood, and according to the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS), an investigation into this crime is not conducted either by the authorities in Belgrade nor in Prishtina.

For the UNS Dossier, his daughter, Gres Maliqi, said (earlier) that her father was killed together with his best friends, Hyzri Talla, one of the KLA commanders in the operational zone Llap, and student Ilir Durmishi.

- Witnesses, Albanians who could see what happened through apartment windows, heard that people who were shooting at them spoke Serbian. They saw a wounded girl, but she never wanted to testify. As far as we know, the Serbian police came quickly, a few minutes after they were killed. Also, the Serbian prosecutor, together with the police, went to the crime scene. We do not know what exactly happened, because we do not know anything for sure, says for the UNS Dossier Gres Maliqi.

As she added, her family did not get any information from the police.

- Until the next day, they did not allow us to take over my father's body. My family members did not speak to members of the Serbian police about this case because it was not requested. The hospital report stated that three of them were killed from a rifle but does not mention with how many bullets. On the other hand, the Serbian police told one of my family members that my father was killed with more than 30 bullets. For now, there is no investigation into my father's and his friends case. Perhaps, because it was war time, and most of the casualties in the war remain largely unexplored - she stated.

The Kosovo Memory published by the Humanitarian Law Center states that Afrim Maliqi was killed as a member of...