Ljubomir Knežević

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.

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":

They are mentioned under suspicion of involvement in the crime of the disappearance of Mr. Ljubomir Knezevic, the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) is reporting on its website.

Knezevis was a journalist of the Pristina newspaper Jedinstvo and a correspondent of Politika.

Investigating the kidnapping of Ljubomir Knezevic, a journalist from Pristina's Jedinstvo, and a correspondent of Belgrade's Politika, the Journalists Association of Serbia (UNS) found that in 2001, the lawyer Stoja Djuricic, suspected that he was kidnapped by a group led by Gani Ymeri, KLA in the Vucirn region.

BELGRADE -The Journalists' Association of Kosovo-Metohija (DNKiM) and the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) called on UNMIK, EULEX and Pristina's institutions on Wednesday to pursue investigations into the cases of killed and missing journalists during 1998 and 1999 and bring perpetrators to justice.

16 years on, kidnappers of Serb journalists still not found

BELGRADE -- August 21 marks the 16th anniversary since the kidnapping in 1998 of two Serb journalists near Orahovac, in Kosovo.