Ivan Jovovic

The families of two young Serbs who were killed while bathing in the Bistrica river in Gorazdevac marked the 16th anniversary of their deaths on Tuesday, but a memorial plaque that Serbian officials had announced would be installed was not unveiled.

They were spending a summer day on the banks of the Bistrica River, near their homes in the Serb enclave of Gorazdevac - a village in the western part of Kosovo.

19-year-old Ivan Jovovic, and 12-year-old Pantelija Dakic were killed in the attack.

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True reconciliation and a future in the European family can happen only when killers and criminals are no longer celebrated as "national heroes" in Kosovo.

GORAZDEVC- A commemoration was held in Gorazdevac, northwestern Kosovo, on Wednesday to commemorate two Serb youths, Ivan Jovovic and Pantelija Dakic, killed in a terrorist attack by ethnic Albanian extremists 11 years ago.

Officials of the Serbian government office for Kosovo Dusan Kozarev and Zeljko Jovic attended the commemoration.

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.

GORAZDEVAC - Serbia marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attack in which two Serb children were murdered and four more were wounded on the bank of the Bistrica River in Gorazdevac near Pec, north-west Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).