Mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica north, Goran Rakic rejected the assessment of EULEX chief Bernd Borhart that residents of northern Kosovo are increasingly satisfied with the EU mission.
Kosovo is in the institutional blockade. Dialogue in Brussels between Kosovo and Serbia is dysfunctional because of the blockade. Because of the blockade there is no continuation of work on the Special Tribunal for alleged war crimes of the KLA. Kosovo's image on the international scene fades.
Kosovo faces the most dangerous radicalism, extremism and terrorism. Young Albanians go to Iraq and Syria without knowing who they are fighting for; they go because they see no perspective in Kosovo.
Director of the Office for communities of Kosovo PM, Srdjan Popovic, believes that Serbs in Kosovo must fight for their rights that are violated.
The association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Association of the Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) will set on Thursday the memorial plaque, at the spot where on August 21, 16 years ago, were kidnap journalists of Radio Pristina, Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenić. They were kidnapped on the road Velika Hoca – Zočište, in Orahovac municipality. On the plaque will be written message, in Serbian and Albanian language: “Here, on 21 August 1998, disappeared journalists. We are looking for them.”
Nebojsa Vlajic says to Blic the indictment against the CI SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic and four Serbs is based on unreliable witnesses’ testimonies and that there is no physical evidence.
The testimonies were written on about 5,000 pages and handed to Ivanovic’s lawyer on Friday afternoon. Vlajić says for Blic that he received over eleven binders, each about four inches thick containing up to 500 pages of testimony.
Citizens' Initiative ‘SDP’ whose leader Oliver Ivanovic was accused of involvement in the murders in 1999 and 2000 in Kosovo, criticized EULEX claiming that they have double standards towards Serbs and Albanians.
Report of the lead prosecutor of the EULEX investigation team, Clint Williamson, on war crimes against Serbs in Kosovo, indirectly points on something that is a real scandal – complete failure of international representatives in Kosovo to prevent atrocities, or to prosecute them, writes Zurich based daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ).
Serbian War Crimes Prosecution ordered an inspection of the site at location Rudnica called ‘Padina 1’ and ‘Padina 2’, which are suspected of being mass-graves of Albanians killed during 1999 conflict.
War Crimes Prosecution has launched an investigation against the General of the Yugoslav Army Dragoslav Zivanovic, Commander of the 125 Motorized Brigade, for crimes committed against Albanian civilians in Kosovo villages Cuska, Pavljan, Ljubenic and Zahac in 1999.
Zivanovic is charged for omitting to prevent the killings of at least 118 Albanian civilians, heavy bodily injuries of 13 people, destruction of 40 houses, robbery and expulsion.
Kosovo Minister for Returns and Communities, Dalibor Jevtic said that there will be no new elections. “According to information I have, the formation of the Government should be completed in September. It is in the interest of both, citizens and the whole Kosovo society. Simply, there are a lot of problems that should be solved and that is the reason why we want to establish the institutions as soon as possible,” said Jevtic to the reporters in village Ajnovce, near Kosovska Kamenica.