Enver Maloku

International missions in Kosovo did not conduct proper investigations to establish who abducted or killed journalists and media workers in Kosovo during and after the war, said an investigation launched on Tuesday by the Serbian Journalists' Association, UNS.

Two bullets were fired at Enver Maloku's apartment in Pristina on July 18, 1998. One hit the railings of the balcony; the other hasn't been found. The assassination attempt failed.

When or not it was the same shooter who opened fire on the afternoon of January 11, 1999, this time the attempt succeeded.

These crimes happened between 1998 and 200, and no one has been brought to justice, the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated on its website.

Media blackout

Prosecutor Drita Hajdari believes "there was the media blackout about these war crimes for nearly twenty years":

UNMIK upon their arrival in Kosovo undertook criminal investigations, the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) is reporting on its website.

UNMIK investigators received only meager information, and KFOR intelligence was "covered" with the explanation that all important data on this murder had already been handed over to the NATO military archive.

When Baze mentioned the murdered journalist Enver Maloku, Syla implicitly made him aware that "they" did it. Nevertheless, he underlines that in the context of the event this was not a recognition of murder, but an attempt to intimidate.