True reconciliation and a future in the European family can happen only when killers and criminals are no longer celebrated as "national heroes" in Kosovo, Serbian media reported.

First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said this on Sunday, during the marking of the anniversary of the 2003 crime committed in the enclave of Gorazdevac in Kosovo, when a group of Serb children and teenagers spending the summer day at the Bistrica River was gunned down by as yet unknown perpetrators using automatic rifles.