Murdered Kosovars by Serb Military in Drenica
Serbian deputy war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekariq said an investigative judge, experts and officials from the European Union mission in Kosovo are analyzing the scene. It is believed that the victims were buried in secret at the mass grave in May or June 1999, after being moved from the primary graves in Drenica, Kosovo, say the Serbian media.
The Republic of Kosovo state authorities have not been allowed to participate at the scene whereas Serbia’s so-called democratic government initially blocked the investigation and now has been delaying it as it is worried by its chances on the case it has brought in front of the International Court of Justice.
Witnesses have said that bodies are buried at a location which later saw the construction of a building and a parking lot in the village quarry of Rudnica after the bodies were brought there from Kosovo, to hide the atrocities committed during the war.
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... Milica Lučić-Čavić, Radio Free Europe, 07/04/2010 Sonja Biserko: čitav akademski pokret radi na poricanju genocida http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/content/press_klub_helsinski_komitet_biserko_srebrenica_kosovo/2088272.html Sonja Biserko: there is an entire academic movement at work to deny the genocide https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1SRStxN6DZwTBQwN6a61VOnWxvQNF3o94wLHs70tJxI0&hl=fr&authkey=CJfMtK4O [...] RSE: The Helsinki Committee has published an important book written by a correspondent from Kosovo in Belgrade. He has written a book on the crimes in Suhareka, where Serbs killed their Albanian neighbors. The book describes how in those ossuaries, in those pits in Batajnica and other places in Serbia, skeletons of women and children as well as men have been found. There had been no distinction. There has been a public discussion after the book was published. How valid is this book as a document? BISERKO: He used mainly documentation from the trial itself. He only commented on documents which he ordered chronologically and put in a kind of functional framework, to give the right picture about the monstrosity of the crime. He intervened very little personally. think that it is the greatest value of the document because it enables anyone to get an insight and do further research. RSE: How do you interpret the fact that it did not arouse the conscience of the people who loaded in the bodies, who dug the pits, who unloaded the corpses and threw them into the pits, the drivers of the trucks? BISERKO: I think it is a collective crime, with many participants. At the time of the intervention, they said - let's deal with the Albanians for good now. That was the tacit agreement about what was happening. A rebellion didn’t start in the provinces until corpses of young people from Serbia started coming. It is a kind of racism against the Albanians, who have been demonized for a century, particularly in the 70's. It is a continuity which does not allow the Albanians to appear in our midst as people who think, who live and who work like we do. That difference is constantly being made and insisted upon. In the last 10 years, since Kosovo escaped from Serbia’s control, there has not been one positive story about how people live in Kosovo, not even on the Serbs there. There are only stories about incidents and how they are being threatened. After 10 years, those Serbs who have remained there, who haven’t left Kosovo, those have found ways to live with their Albanian neighbors. As far as I know, they have a way of cohabitation and this is not being discussed at all. I think that the citizens of Serbia are in a way denied correct information about how they live in Kosovo, and they are constantly held hostage by a stereotype of who and what the Albanians are, that those are people unable to create a state, that they are inferior, that they never deserved to have a state, and particularly to get support from the Americans, who sided with them during the NATO intervention. |
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