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The Serbian Eichmann in Pristina (Koha Ditore)

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Publicist Enver Robelli writes in his opinion piece about the signing of the agreement between NATO and the Serbian Army on the full relaxation of the air safety zone and the presence of Serbian Army commander Ljubisa Dikovic in Pristina on this occasion. Robelli argues that allowing Dikovic to come to Pristina was ridiculing with the victims of the war. “There is sufficient evidence that Dikovic was involved in the massacres of civilians in Kosovo. The decision made by KFOR was scandalous, to say the least. KFOR generals, you have come to Kosovo to guarantee peace and to protect the victims. If you bring to Pristina a war crimes suspect, you are insulting the victims and discrediting your own mission. Following this scandal, no one in Brussels should be surprised that such policies are completely ruining the idea for a safe and peaceful environment in Kosovo. No one, be they in government, the opposition, civil society or the media, should tolerate such an insult. To Albanians, Ljubisa Dikovic is a Serbian Adolf Eichmann, a man suspected of committing atrocities against the civilian population in the Drenica region. This has been documented in a lengthy report prepared by the Human Rights Fund, a human rights organization. Although the Fund called on the Serbian judiciary to initiate investigations against Dikovic and to bring him to trial, the Serbian politics has acted differently: early this year, President Nikolic decorated Dikovic with ‘The Order of the White Eagle’. Dikovic was part of the Serbian military apparatus that organized the mass killing of Albanians in Kosovo in 1998-1999 … Ever since the liberation of Kosovo, to which NATO had the crucial contribution, KFOR troops have enjoyed great respect among the Kosovo Albanians but also among most of the minority communities. By sending the invitation to Dikovic, the KFOR Commander Guglielmo Luigi Miglietta showed lack of respect for the victims. To make matter worse, this is the not the first time that Dikovic visited KFOR headquarters in Pristina. This is more or less the same as if General Miglietta had invited after World War Two an assistant of the dictator Mussolini to sign an agreement for securing peace in Italy. What would General Miglietta say if on Sunday a unit of Kosovo agents would have kidnapped General Dikovic the same way that the Israeli secret service kidnapped Eichmann in Argentina in order to send him to trial in Jerusalem? What would the KFOR commander say if Kosovo had a brave prosecutor that would issue an arrest warrant for Dikovic? This country needs justice, not only remembrance for the past, Mr. General Miglietta”.

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