Representatives of the Serbian and Albanian associations of families of kidnapped and killed during the war in Kosovo again appealed to officials in Belgrade, Pristina and international community to take concrete measures to clarify the fate of missing persons, KIM Radio reported.
The new appeal was sent before the holding of a conference in Geneva. In the conference will speak members of the working groups for missing from Belgrade and Pristina, as well as members of the United Nations Working Group on Forced or Involuntary Disappearances, reported KIM radio.
Representatives of the two associations, Bajram Qerkinaj and Milorad Trifunović, seek from the international community to use the information provided by members of the families of missing persons in the last 18 years.
“We have been waiting for more than 18 years on the news of our missing sons, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. We gave information to various international organizations that we ourselves do not even know how much. Some of us have given over 30 statements from September 1999 to 2016 in connection with their disappearance, and each time we were told that we would be notified of any progress, but these were the empty words,” said Qerkinaj in his appeal.
Families of the missing also appeal to the international community to inform them about their work and share with them the information they promised to them.
“We appeal to Belgrade and Pristina as well as to the international community to appoint a high representative with a strong mandate and authority in order to end our suffering, to find the remains of our loved ones, and to mourn them as it suits,” said Milorad Trifunović, coordinator of the Association of Families of the Kidnapped And the missing from Kosovo and Metohija.
Milorad Trifunović reiterates that representatives of the international community have the most information about missing persons in Kosovo.
“Let them tell us frankly what they’ve been doing for the past 18 years and what their further plans are, how they think they will clarify the fate of the missing”, says Trifunović.
The two-day Geneva conference on missing persons during the Kosovo war will be held on June 29 and 30.
The fate of 1650 persons from Kosovo – Serbs, Albanians, Roma and other nationalities, eighteen years after the war conflicts has not yet been clarified.
