“Journalists’ Association of Serbia (UNS) has done great job in investigations of murders and abductions of the journalists on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija”
Chairman of the Commission for Investigating Murder of Journalists Veran Matic had announced the possibility of establishing this commission on Kosovo, with the aim of resolving the killings and abductions of 14 journalists and media workers in osovo and Metohija (KiM) from 1998 until 2005.
Journalists’ Association of Serbia (JAS/UNS) discussed this issue with Matic, as well as UNS investigations into the killings and abductions of journalists in KiM, but also about the accomplishments of the Serbian Commission.
While a guest on the show “Speak Serbian Freely”, you stated that you have reached agreement with OSCE that in the next few months, you are going to investigate the fate of the missing and killed journalists in KiM, and that you will “try to gather documents that no one had asked for, but that should be available in certain cases“. For years now, UNS requests from international and Serbian institutions the information on the colleagues and publishes it. Are you familiar with this fact, and why you hadn’t mentioned it in the interview, and are you going to use the data that UNS had provided?
VERAN MATIC: A year ago or so, on the OSCE Conference, I had presented the work of the Commission for investigating the killings of journalists, and I proposed for similar body to be established for resolving murders and abductions of the journalists in Kosovo. In the radio show, I had underlined the fact that on this conference, only UNS representative had for the first time given full data on the number of killed and journalists that had gone missing.
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