Unpunished crime can be repeated, official warns
An unpunished crime threatens to repeat itself, says Office for Kosovo Director Aleksandar Vulin on the ninth anniversary of anti-Serb violence in Kosovo
Sunday, 17.03.2013.
11:41
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA An unpunished crime threatens to repeat itself, says Office for Kosovo Director Aleksandar Vulin on the ninth anniversary of anti-Serb violence in Kosovo “Albanian violence against Serbs in Kosovo is the last pogrom of a nation in Europe, and even after nine years those who ordered and organized this crime have not been discovered,” he pointed out. Unpunished crime can be repeated, official warns "A crime without punishment threatens to repeat itself," Vulin cautioned. "Crimes are imprescriptible and desire and need for justice do not cease to exist," he said and called on the international community to determine who was responsible for the violence against the Serbs. He also pointed out that, due to the power it had in Kosovo, the international community was responsible and obliged to shed light on the crimes committed from March 17 until March 19, 2004. Vulin said that the international community should admit it had made a mistake by not making enough effort to discover those who ordered and carried out the pogrom of Serbs in Kosovo, not even after nine years. Vulin stressed that more than 60,000 Albanians had taken part in the outburst of violence against the Serb population that left 19 persons killed and several hundred injured. “Besides, around 4,000 Serbs were expelled from their homes and six towns and ten villages were ethnically cleansed. Not one Serb returned there since then,” the Office for Kosovo director underscored. Vulin reminded the international community that it also had an obligation to make it possible for displaced persons from Kosovo to go back to their homes. The Office for Kosovo director attended a memorial service for the victims in St Nicholas Church in Pristina on Sunday. A total of eight Serbs were murdered while two went missing in the pogrom carried out by Albanian extremists in March 2004. 11 Albanians died in clashes with members of international forces who tried to protect the innocent Serb population. In just 72 hours, the Albanians destroyed and burnt down 938 Serb houses and apartments, 35 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries and ten public buildings. Aleksandar Vulin is seen at the memorial service in Pristina (Tanjug) Tanjug
Unpunished crime can be repeated, official warns
"A crime without punishment threatens to repeat itself," Vulin cautioned."Crimes are imprescriptible and desire and need for justice do not cease to exist," he said and called on the international community to determine who was responsible for the violence against the Serbs.
He also pointed out that, due to the power it had in Kosovo, the international community was responsible and obliged to shed light on the crimes committed from March 17 until March 19, 2004.
Vulin said that the international community should admit it had made a mistake by not making enough effort to discover those who ordered and carried out the pogrom of Serbs in Kosovo, not even after nine years.
Vulin stressed that more than 60,000 Albanians had taken part in the outburst of violence against the Serb population that left 19 persons killed and several hundred injured.
“Besides, around 4,000 Serbs were expelled from their homes and six towns and ten villages were ethnically cleansed. Not one Serb returned there since then,” the Office for Kosovo director underscored.
Vulin reminded the international community that it also had an obligation to make it possible for displaced persons from Kosovo to go back to their homes.
The Office for Kosovo director attended a memorial service for the victims in St Nicholas Church in Priština on Sunday.
A total of eight Serbs were murdered while two went missing in the pogrom carried out by Albanian extremists in March 2004. 11 Albanians died in clashes with members of international forces who tried to protect the innocent Serb population.
In just 72 hours, the Albanians destroyed and burnt down 938 Serb houses and apartments, 35 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries and ten public buildings.
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