In the village of Staro Gacko, near Lipljan in central Kosovo, the priests of the eparchy of Raska and Prizren have served the memorial service for 14 Serb harvesters who were killed in the field on July 23, 1999.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric has stated that Serbia will be with its people in Kosovo and insist on finding and punishing the culprits from Staro Gacko. He expressed wish to live in peace with Albanian neighbors and that Serbs never again want anybody’s families to suffer the burden of the community in Staro Gacko, resulting from the crime that must never happen again. The memorial service was attended by ministers Slobodan Perovic and Dalibor Jevtic from the Kosovo Government, Serb delegates in the provincial parliament and mayors of some Serb municipalities. On this day 15 years ago, 14 Serbs were killed in Staro Gacko from an automatic weapon, they youngest one being 17 years old.