KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that the massacre of the Jashari family in Prekaz in March of 1998 was one of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II and while the only survivor now 17 years old, Besarta Jashari, recently told her story to the BBC, she never did so before a court because the killing of over 50 members of Jashari family was never prosecuted. Similarly, the Recak massacre that played the decisive role for the start of NATO intervention was never appropriately addressed by a court and the Serb police general who commanded the crime not only was not held accountable but got promoted and is today member of the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s Progressive Party. On 27 April 1999, the Serb forces separated men and women from the village of Meja as they were being deported to Albania and executed 377 men, recalls Kelmendi adding that it was only just recently that the Basic Court in Gjakova/Djakovica issued an arrest warrant for 16 persons including a Serb general, currently politically active in Serbia, in connection to the massacre. These three, writes Kelmendi, are only some on the most terrible massacres carried out in Kosovo and in this context, the statement of the Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci that Kosovo will sue Serbia for genocide, seems to be aimed only at internal consumption. Thaci’s statement comes at a time when a special court that will tackle alleged crimes committed by Kosovo Liberation Army members is about to be established while So much time has passed without an effort put into bringing justice to the victims of massacres committed by Serb forces against Albanian population.
Prekaz, Recak, Meja… so on… (Koha Ditore)
- Published: 9 years ago on 12/03/2015
- By: OSPI-rq
- Last Modified: March 12, 2015 @ 2:19 pm
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