Marjan Melonashi, Journalist - Testimony of Crime Discharged (Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) website)
Who was Marjan Melonashi? A 179 cm-high young man, with brown hair and green eyes. English language student at the University of Pristina, a dreamer, an in loved twenty-four-year-old, with plans for marriage. A journalist, a reporter of Radio Kosovo Serbian desk, Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) writes on its website.
It was September 9, 2000. At 2 pm, he completed his half-hour show, left the studio in the city center and asked for a ride from an orange taxi parked across the radio building. This was the last information about him.
Who is Marjan Melonasi? A symbol. For the last 18 years, his fate has been an outcry of impunity of crimes against journalists, terrible injustice of the ones who bring justice, and collapse of the international rule of law mission.