The arrest of former KLA member Albert Spahiu in Switzerland, accused for crimes committed in the municipality of Orahovac/ Rahovec, opened new wounds of the families of the kidnapped and murdered Serbs. No one was held responsible for the crimes committed in July 1998 in Orahovac/Rahovec and villages Opteruša, Retimlje, Zočište and Velika Hoca.
“In July 1998, 120 people were kidnapped in the municipality and 45 people killed, while three members of the family Kostic are still missing,” said Olgica Kostic Bozanic, from the Association of Families of Missing and kidnapped Serbs. She added that fourteen persons from her family were kidnapped. The bodies of killed Serbs were found in April 2005 in a mass grave Volujak near Malisevo and in October 2006, the remains of the murdered people were handed over to the families at the administrative crossing Merdare.
The families of killed and kidnapped Serbs from Orahovac municipality complained to the Human Rights Advisory Panel, which in 2009 expressed the opinion that there were failures in the UNMIK investigation related to these crimes.
