BELGRADE - Oliver Ivanovic, one of the Serb leaders in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), against whom a criminal indictment for crimes against ethnic Albanians has been issued recently, said he had been arrested so that his political action could be prevented.

“My arrest had only one goal: to exclude me from political and public life,” Ivanovic said in an interview he gave to Belgrade-based daily Politika in writing on the day before the indictments against him was issued.

It will be 11 years tomorrow after two Serb children were murdered and four were wounded in Gorazdeavac in Kosovo and Metohija, hence no one is held responsible yet for the crime.

Despite the reward amounting to a million euros and a promise of UNMIK officials that, as they said, every stone will be turned upside-down in order to find perpetrators, no one has been held responsible yet for the crime against the innocent children.

In the middle of the week, head of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric was in Pristina, where he met with Serbian liaison officer Dejan Pavicevic, walked around the town, had lunch in the centre, visited the local church Sv. Nikola and visited Gracanica.

Djuric later explained that "his task is to show that this is something normal and that it should be an integral part of the normalization of relations." 

“It is required to create the political basis for the establishment of Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) by adopting the statute, which is only possible through political agreements and negotiations with the political force that will be the backbone of the future government in Pristina. I expect that participation of now legitimately elected representatives of the Serbian people in provincial institutions will contribute to direct talks between us and Kosovo Albanians about the things that were already discussed in Brussels.

Former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte has said she would be willing to return to The Hague to prosecute the leaders of the KLA.

Asked whether she felt the need to go back to the courtroom for this reason, Del Ponte responded affirmatively in a statement for the Belgrade-based daily Večernje Novosti.

"Especially now that I'm in the UN Commission on Syria. I always thought that the victims need justice," she added.

Former head of economic division for the International Civilian Office, Andrea Capussela, writes in an opinion piece for the paper that there was nothing new in the report presented by the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) lead prosecutor Clint Williamson apart from one thing: the report authored by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty was accurate, in essence, even on the part of organ harvesting.

The families of victims of crimes committed in Kosovo wait too long for the justice and the truth about the fate of their loved ones, said in an interview for Tanjug Michael Montgomery, an American journalist who discovered “Yellow House” in Albania, where, according to the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe, Dick Marty, the organs of abducted people were harvested. 

EULEX chief, Bernd Borchardt, said in an interview for KTV that with regards to investigations involving “big fish”, everything depends on the evidence but that he never gave instructions not to arrest someone. “I never said to someone: do not investigate this person. It would kill me if this would be the case. It would be the end of my career. I never want to do such a thing. Everything depends on the evidence”, said Borchardt.

Pristina, Belgrade – EULEX Head of Information Service Miguel Carvalho de Faria categorically stated to Danas that "in Kosovo do not exist no secret lists and charges for the arrest," and that "the press persistently publishes rumours and speculations that are completely baseless."

"Throughout Kosovo are conducted legally authorized investigations, which included people of all ethnicities. In Kosovo law there is no provision of sealed indictments. When filed, the charge shall be communicated to the defendant and his lawyers in accordance with legal procedures," says De Faria.

Law enforcement authorities are investigating the privatization of the distribution and supply network of the Kosovo Power Corporation (KEK). Sources in the EU Rule of Law mission in Kosovo (EULEX), which confirmed the investigations, said considerable material has been collected and that concrete results are expected. “Investigations are on the right track,” the source said. Meanwhile, EULEX officials could not confirm the start of investigations. The website recalls that the distribution and supply network was privatized two years ago for €26.3 million.