"Warrant for Serbs aimed at minimizing KLA crimes"

"Warrant for Serbs aimed at minimizing KLA crimes"

An indictment has been raised before the basic court in Djakovica in Kosovo against 16 Serbs and Montenegrins and one Albanian, and they are all charged with crimes committed against (Albanian) civilians in the territory of Reka Kec in April 1999.

A red international arrest warrant was issued for them via Interpol Office of the UN Administration in Kosovo.

Drecun noted that the issuance of the Interpol warrant coincides with intensified pressure by the West on Pristina to adopt a law on the establishment of a special court, which should try KLA members for war crimes committed against Serbs and other non-Albanians.

Raising an indictments against Serbs, minimizes and plays down the formation of a special court and it is aimed at converting the trial of KLA (into the trial of Serbs), Drecun underlined.

In this sense, he pointed to the issue of alleged accountability of Chief of General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces Ljubisa Dikovic for the crimes committed in the territory of Reka ??Kec near Djakovica.

Furthermore, the Basic Court in Djakovica, which deemed it unnecessary to investigate a mass grave of Serb victims in the territory of Djakovica and remained silent on the issue, is now raising an indictment against MP Stojanovic and a group of Serbs for alleged crimes committed against Albanians, said Drecun.

He pointed out that "this recipe has been used all these years" in order to marginalize the crimes against Serbs, and now to undermine the importance of the moves that are to be taken by the special court with regards of the crimes committed by the KLA.

As for the accusations against MP Stojanovic, Drecun said that everything he has done in Kosovo and Metohija in the capacity of the chief of the security service and the Pristina Corps is available to the public eye.

"He (Stojanovic) has given testimonies before the ICTY on several occasions and I cannot see what the court in Djakovica is now trying to do," said Drecun.

He said that Serbs have a negative experience with courts in Kosovo and Metohija and noted that former KLA commander Ramush Haradinaj is now at large though he committed dreadful war crimes in the territory of Djakovica and Decani.

"Serbia advocates that all war crimes committed during the conflict in Kosovo andMetohija should be discovered and prosecuted," said Drecun and pointed out that in this respect Serbia has made much more progress than Kosovo.