Citizens’ Initiative ‘SDP’ whose leader Oliver Ivanovic was accused of involvement in the murders in 1999 and 2000 in Kosovo, criticized EULEX claiming that they have double standards towards Serbs and Albanians.
The statement said that EULEX refused a request of Ivanovic’s lawyer to be released pending trial. At the same time EULEX accepted release pending trial for Ismet Haxha, one of the KLA members accused for war crimes, committed in Likovac in 1998 and 1999. “Double standards of EULEX justice once more discredited EULEX as organization, when it comes to the law and justice,” reads the statement.
CI ‘SDP’ said that Haxha “has obstructed a continuation of his trial and hid at the Clinical Centre in Pristina”, while EULEX “unsuccessfully searched for him, trying to convince him to respect them and answer to the court summons.” “What offends the entire Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija is that there are many examples of double standards where the Albanians are in a privileged position, while EULEX is acting as their guardian,” the statement said.
