Commemoration marking 17 years since the murder of 17 Kosovo Serbs in the village Dojnice near Prizren took place yesterday in Gračanica/Graçanicë. Dissatisfied families of the victims of unresolved crimes reiterated that there won’t be real reconciliation unless the truth is revealed.

“On that tragic 27 June in 1999 there were only elderly people left in the village, thinking, probably as all others, that they never did anything wrong to anyone and that there is no reason to leave the village,” said Miodrag Andrić, whose mother and father were killed on that day.

The chairperson of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo and Metohija, Verica Tomanović, also stressed that interest in cases of kidnapped and missing persons is fading away as of 2006, whereas the chairperson of the Serbian Commission for Missing Persons, Veljko Odalović, said that talks with the Pristina Commission for Missing Persons are not yielding any results. He added that Belgrade insists on the opening of archives of the international organizations in Kosovo aimed at shedding the light on the fate of 540 missing Serbs and other non-Albanians.

A short movie “Kidnapped Truth” about missing and kidnapped in Kosovo and Metohija was screened during the commemoration.