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Saturday, 30.04.2011.

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War crimes institute to be formed in Kosovo

The Kosovo government approved on Friday the forming of a war crimes institute, whose task will be to investigate crimes in the period from 1990-1999.

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CG

pre 13 godina

Instead of covering their crimes by inventing Serb crimes Albanians should train themselves in sports like marathon,running,and triathlon...
They will need it...Very soon..

Peggy

pre 13 godina

We couldn't even care less about croats...let them all be imprisoned we don't care, but serbia will have te face the past, otherwise we will make sure that serbia pays...we were to kind with serbs in 1943, but the tide will turn again in the future, one day Stalingrad will fall.
(iliri, 1 May 2011 13:24)
======================================

You don't care about your allies? How quickly you forget.
OK, let' see then. You care about Thaci and Haradinaj. They are going to go to prison too.
It's only a matter of time. What is going to happen if Russia goes down? Are you going to for some sort of an army and attack Serbia?
Such big threats from such little people.

Nelli_Canada

pre 13 godina

Good job Prishtina and please do it ASAP. I've waited for this for so long and glad it's finally happening. Serbia MUST pay for crimes it commited against unarmed civilians. Houses can be rebuilt but those dead civilians won't be brought back to life therefore Serbia must pay a price.

Korrik Sofalia

pre 13 godina

Recently published figures of victims data by The Hague Tribunal reveal that only in the short time from March to June 1999 as many as 10,356 ethnic Albanians were killed in Kosovo. These figures in addition refer to a “… departure of at least 700,000 Kosovo Albanians from Kosovo in the ..." same time. Further two thousand persons are still missing. Reportedly around 200 thousand houses, business premises, factories, schools as well as several cultural and religious buildings had been destroyed over the decade until 1999.

The announced establishment of a war crimes institute comes surprisingly late. Nevertheless it sets a signal at the right time: The current public communication and prosecution of war crimes throughout the former Yugoslavia seems to target specifically persons outside Serbia, with particular focus on Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. By this also in Kosovo the fear arises, that the former perpetrator, Serbia, by subtle diplomatic campaigns successfully tries to transfer its image from an aggressor to a victim.

Although publishing most doubtful statements in general, in this particular case the US conservative Kuhner manages to briefly summarize the situation: "All sides were guilty of atrocities; no party – or nation – was more responsible than the other. This is what Serbia has been demanding for years. It has sought to cover its ... national shame with moral equivalence".

iliri

pre 13 godina

''So did the Croats until fate caught up with some of them.
Let's see how happy you are when more are imprisoned.
(Peggy, 1 May 2011 01:46) ''

We couldn't even care less about croats...let them all be imprisoned we don't care, but serbia will have te face the past, otherwise we will make sure that serbia pays...we were to kind with serbs in 1943, but the tide will turn again in the future, one day Stalingrad will fall.

Peggy

pre 13 godina

Serbs thought they can get away with murder!
(ivan, 30 April 2011 17:48)
==========================

So did the Croats until fate caught up with some of them.
Let's see how happy you are when more are imprisoned.

Ptoleme

pre 13 godina

The oddity is that Serbs have mass graves of other nationalities at their capital's doorstep yet they are so brainwashed that they can't help but block anything committed by their precious innocent red hands.

When they construct their own judicial bodies against past war crimes they all chant in unison yet when others do so, they start pointing fingers.

That's pretty hypocritical man.

vegimite sandwich

pre 13 godina

you Albanian hypocrites the investigations should be from 1945 to 2004 the year the biggest war crime took place in kocobo when your so called European values went on a rampage and burnt 50 of our churches and killed 400 Serbs how many perpetrators of that crime have been caught and put on trail you people should be ashamed of your selves but i guess no seance no feeling don't worry your time is coming

norberto

pre 13 godina

yes indeed! praise the lord, and pass the ammunition. it's about time the good people of kosovo take matters into the own hands, finding war criminals within their ranks and finding out the truth that always hides behind the oh-so innocent facade of democratic practice. and we know how many people there do that, don't we?

i would really hope this serves as a wake-up call to the prstna regime that all those who would play the victim card as a way of diverting attention away from their own criminal elements who put so many serbs and non-"loyal" supporters of uck in mass graves can finally come to justice. my brother and i have been furiously twitting to all of our ngo friends and acquaintances for such a move for a long time. it must seem that with the opening of this institute, the world has finally listened to our persistent pleas. we are lone voices in a den of sharks but truth ultimately wins out.

hopefully once war criminals (and we know thousands of them are openly walking the streets in pristina) are apprehended from the 1990s, perhaps we can then look towards finding all those who targetted serbs after 2000. we have to try. we have to perservere. otherwise justice will never be done.

oh wait. this is an albanian court for serbs only? crap. never mind.

tongue!

norberto,
fiasco

roberto

pre 13 godina

Haleluya!!!
(ben, 30 April 2011 12:01)

yes, thank you, i second that in motion :) praise the lord, it's been a long enough wait.

First action for me -- to send my friend/collaborator to the new commission with our 23 page report detailing all available information/testimony (in English)regarding the mass burnings of albanian bodies by serb terror forces in the spring of 1999. that means trepca, that means mackatica (inside serbia) and probably other sites in the south of serbia as well. we have demanded that an immediate investigation be launched into these sordid and macabre matters, both inside kosova and inside serbia. and it must be supervised by international experts, of that there is no question.

there is also the related matter of the still unopened mass graves, for example at raska (S serbia.) the intl community has provided evidence in the form of satellite images and witness testimony for authenticating this site, but the belgrade regime has played around, spent a year covering up the proceedings, in other words doing a lot of nothing.

actually their "experts" took a soil sample reportedly some meters down "nearby" the site, and decided that the results were "not positive" (presumably testing for organic matter.) any way you look at it it's a sham, and now they are purposely stonewalling, waiting for "all sides" to do the same. hiding their war crimes behind the wall of relativity, which is sleazy and immoral to say the least.

then there is the old but not forgotten issue of the poisonings of kosovar albanian (segregated) school children by presumably serbian ("Yugoslavian") secret services in early 1990. this bizarre and also very macabre episode, which stretched over the course of several days, has also been widely documented, although always denied by serb officials (duh.) we have met both survivors of this horror as well as doctors who have treated victims -- and some who continue to do so, mainly for residual neurological problems. i entitled that vignette in our book, "Poison gas on the school lunch menu?..." and will be happy to share our information with anyone legitimately interested.

there are endless numbers of war crimes committed in kosova during that decade, and ALL serious war crimes allegations (as opposed to marty's sleazy SMEAR report) need to be properly investigated.

thanks! tung.

robert0/ frisco

progressive

pre 13 godina

BS attempt by pristina to look like they are going after war criminals, when the biggest criminal will be exempt from investigation, the snake himself. This is more KLA clowning for the media to improve their image, but anyone with a single brain cell, this includes Albanians, will see this as a farce.

ida

pre 13 godina

Why do they stop in 1999 and not in 2000/2001 when people were still being kidnapped and cleansed under cover of it being "revenge"? There was still war fallout past 1999.
I know the war missing lists of the Red Cross continue to early 2001 so since people who went missing and were killed in 2000 are counted as war victims in the totals, then the investigation should include that time.

ida

pre 13 godina

Why do they stop in 1999 and not in 2000/2001 when people were still being kidnapped and cleansed under cover of it being "revenge"? There was still war fallout past 1999.
I know the war missing lists of the Red Cross continue to early 2001 so since people who went missing and were killed in 2000 are counted as war victims in the totals, then the investigation should include that time.

progressive

pre 13 godina

BS attempt by pristina to look like they are going after war criminals, when the biggest criminal will be exempt from investigation, the snake himself. This is more KLA clowning for the media to improve their image, but anyone with a single brain cell, this includes Albanians, will see this as a farce.

norberto

pre 13 godina

yes indeed! praise the lord, and pass the ammunition. it's about time the good people of kosovo take matters into the own hands, finding war criminals within their ranks and finding out the truth that always hides behind the oh-so innocent facade of democratic practice. and we know how many people there do that, don't we?

i would really hope this serves as a wake-up call to the prstna regime that all those who would play the victim card as a way of diverting attention away from their own criminal elements who put so many serbs and non-"loyal" supporters of uck in mass graves can finally come to justice. my brother and i have been furiously twitting to all of our ngo friends and acquaintances for such a move for a long time. it must seem that with the opening of this institute, the world has finally listened to our persistent pleas. we are lone voices in a den of sharks but truth ultimately wins out.

hopefully once war criminals (and we know thousands of them are openly walking the streets in pristina) are apprehended from the 1990s, perhaps we can then look towards finding all those who targetted serbs after 2000. we have to try. we have to perservere. otherwise justice will never be done.

oh wait. this is an albanian court for serbs only? crap. never mind.

tongue!

norberto,
fiasco

roberto

pre 13 godina

Haleluya!!!
(ben, 30 April 2011 12:01)

yes, thank you, i second that in motion :) praise the lord, it's been a long enough wait.

First action for me -- to send my friend/collaborator to the new commission with our 23 page report detailing all available information/testimony (in English)regarding the mass burnings of albanian bodies by serb terror forces in the spring of 1999. that means trepca, that means mackatica (inside serbia) and probably other sites in the south of serbia as well. we have demanded that an immediate investigation be launched into these sordid and macabre matters, both inside kosova and inside serbia. and it must be supervised by international experts, of that there is no question.

there is also the related matter of the still unopened mass graves, for example at raska (S serbia.) the intl community has provided evidence in the form of satellite images and witness testimony for authenticating this site, but the belgrade regime has played around, spent a year covering up the proceedings, in other words doing a lot of nothing.

actually their "experts" took a soil sample reportedly some meters down "nearby" the site, and decided that the results were "not positive" (presumably testing for organic matter.) any way you look at it it's a sham, and now they are purposely stonewalling, waiting for "all sides" to do the same. hiding their war crimes behind the wall of relativity, which is sleazy and immoral to say the least.

then there is the old but not forgotten issue of the poisonings of kosovar albanian (segregated) school children by presumably serbian ("Yugoslavian") secret services in early 1990. this bizarre and also very macabre episode, which stretched over the course of several days, has also been widely documented, although always denied by serb officials (duh.) we have met both survivors of this horror as well as doctors who have treated victims -- and some who continue to do so, mainly for residual neurological problems. i entitled that vignette in our book, "Poison gas on the school lunch menu?..." and will be happy to share our information with anyone legitimately interested.

there are endless numbers of war crimes committed in kosova during that decade, and ALL serious war crimes allegations (as opposed to marty's sleazy SMEAR report) need to be properly investigated.

thanks! tung.

robert0/ frisco

vegimite sandwich

pre 13 godina

you Albanian hypocrites the investigations should be from 1945 to 2004 the year the biggest war crime took place in kocobo when your so called European values went on a rampage and burnt 50 of our churches and killed 400 Serbs how many perpetrators of that crime have been caught and put on trail you people should be ashamed of your selves but i guess no seance no feeling don't worry your time is coming

Peggy

pre 13 godina

Serbs thought they can get away with murder!
(ivan, 30 April 2011 17:48)
==========================

So did the Croats until fate caught up with some of them.
Let's see how happy you are when more are imprisoned.

Korrik Sofalia

pre 13 godina

Recently published figures of victims data by The Hague Tribunal reveal that only in the short time from March to June 1999 as many as 10,356 ethnic Albanians were killed in Kosovo. These figures in addition refer to a “… departure of at least 700,000 Kosovo Albanians from Kosovo in the ..." same time. Further two thousand persons are still missing. Reportedly around 200 thousand houses, business premises, factories, schools as well as several cultural and religious buildings had been destroyed over the decade until 1999.

The announced establishment of a war crimes institute comes surprisingly late. Nevertheless it sets a signal at the right time: The current public communication and prosecution of war crimes throughout the former Yugoslavia seems to target specifically persons outside Serbia, with particular focus on Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. By this also in Kosovo the fear arises, that the former perpetrator, Serbia, by subtle diplomatic campaigns successfully tries to transfer its image from an aggressor to a victim.

Although publishing most doubtful statements in general, in this particular case the US conservative Kuhner manages to briefly summarize the situation: "All sides were guilty of atrocities; no party – or nation – was more responsible than the other. This is what Serbia has been demanding for years. It has sought to cover its ... national shame with moral equivalence".

Ptoleme

pre 13 godina

The oddity is that Serbs have mass graves of other nationalities at their capital's doorstep yet they are so brainwashed that they can't help but block anything committed by their precious innocent red hands.

When they construct their own judicial bodies against past war crimes they all chant in unison yet when others do so, they start pointing fingers.

That's pretty hypocritical man.

Nelli_Canada

pre 13 godina

Good job Prishtina and please do it ASAP. I've waited for this for so long and glad it's finally happening. Serbia MUST pay for crimes it commited against unarmed civilians. Houses can be rebuilt but those dead civilians won't be brought back to life therefore Serbia must pay a price.

Peggy

pre 13 godina

We couldn't even care less about croats...let them all be imprisoned we don't care, but serbia will have te face the past, otherwise we will make sure that serbia pays...we were to kind with serbs in 1943, but the tide will turn again in the future, one day Stalingrad will fall.
(iliri, 1 May 2011 13:24)
======================================

You don't care about your allies? How quickly you forget.
OK, let' see then. You care about Thaci and Haradinaj. They are going to go to prison too.
It's only a matter of time. What is going to happen if Russia goes down? Are you going to for some sort of an army and attack Serbia?
Such big threats from such little people.

iliri

pre 13 godina

''So did the Croats until fate caught up with some of them.
Let's see how happy you are when more are imprisoned.
(Peggy, 1 May 2011 01:46) ''

We couldn't even care less about croats...let them all be imprisoned we don't care, but serbia will have te face the past, otherwise we will make sure that serbia pays...we were to kind with serbs in 1943, but the tide will turn again in the future, one day Stalingrad will fall.

CG

pre 13 godina

Instead of covering their crimes by inventing Serb crimes Albanians should train themselves in sports like marathon,running,and triathlon...
They will need it...Very soon..

roberto

pre 13 godina

Haleluya!!!
(ben, 30 April 2011 12:01)

yes, thank you, i second that in motion :) praise the lord, it's been a long enough wait.

First action for me -- to send my friend/collaborator to the new commission with our 23 page report detailing all available information/testimony (in English)regarding the mass burnings of albanian bodies by serb terror forces in the spring of 1999. that means trepca, that means mackatica (inside serbia) and probably other sites in the south of serbia as well. we have demanded that an immediate investigation be launched into these sordid and macabre matters, both inside kosova and inside serbia. and it must be supervised by international experts, of that there is no question.

there is also the related matter of the still unopened mass graves, for example at raska (S serbia.) the intl community has provided evidence in the form of satellite images and witness testimony for authenticating this site, but the belgrade regime has played around, spent a year covering up the proceedings, in other words doing a lot of nothing.

actually their "experts" took a soil sample reportedly some meters down "nearby" the site, and decided that the results were "not positive" (presumably testing for organic matter.) any way you look at it it's a sham, and now they are purposely stonewalling, waiting for "all sides" to do the same. hiding their war crimes behind the wall of relativity, which is sleazy and immoral to say the least.

then there is the old but not forgotten issue of the poisonings of kosovar albanian (segregated) school children by presumably serbian ("Yugoslavian") secret services in early 1990. this bizarre and also very macabre episode, which stretched over the course of several days, has also been widely documented, although always denied by serb officials (duh.) we have met both survivors of this horror as well as doctors who have treated victims -- and some who continue to do so, mainly for residual neurological problems. i entitled that vignette in our book, "Poison gas on the school lunch menu?..." and will be happy to share our information with anyone legitimately interested.

there are endless numbers of war crimes committed in kosova during that decade, and ALL serious war crimes allegations (as opposed to marty's sleazy SMEAR report) need to be properly investigated.

thanks! tung.

robert0/ frisco

norberto

pre 13 godina

yes indeed! praise the lord, and pass the ammunition. it's about time the good people of kosovo take matters into the own hands, finding war criminals within their ranks and finding out the truth that always hides behind the oh-so innocent facade of democratic practice. and we know how many people there do that, don't we?

i would really hope this serves as a wake-up call to the prstna regime that all those who would play the victim card as a way of diverting attention away from their own criminal elements who put so many serbs and non-"loyal" supporters of uck in mass graves can finally come to justice. my brother and i have been furiously twitting to all of our ngo friends and acquaintances for such a move for a long time. it must seem that with the opening of this institute, the world has finally listened to our persistent pleas. we are lone voices in a den of sharks but truth ultimately wins out.

hopefully once war criminals (and we know thousands of them are openly walking the streets in pristina) are apprehended from the 1990s, perhaps we can then look towards finding all those who targetted serbs after 2000. we have to try. we have to perservere. otherwise justice will never be done.

oh wait. this is an albanian court for serbs only? crap. never mind.

tongue!

norberto,
fiasco

ida

pre 13 godina

Why do they stop in 1999 and not in 2000/2001 when people were still being kidnapped and cleansed under cover of it being "revenge"? There was still war fallout past 1999.
I know the war missing lists of the Red Cross continue to early 2001 so since people who went missing and were killed in 2000 are counted as war victims in the totals, then the investigation should include that time.

iliri

pre 13 godina

''So did the Croats until fate caught up with some of them.
Let's see how happy you are when more are imprisoned.
(Peggy, 1 May 2011 01:46) ''

We couldn't even care less about croats...let them all be imprisoned we don't care, but serbia will have te face the past, otherwise we will make sure that serbia pays...we were to kind with serbs in 1943, but the tide will turn again in the future, one day Stalingrad will fall.

Peggy

pre 13 godina

Serbs thought they can get away with murder!
(ivan, 30 April 2011 17:48)
==========================

So did the Croats until fate caught up with some of them.
Let's see how happy you are when more are imprisoned.

progressive

pre 13 godina

BS attempt by pristina to look like they are going after war criminals, when the biggest criminal will be exempt from investigation, the snake himself. This is more KLA clowning for the media to improve their image, but anyone with a single brain cell, this includes Albanians, will see this as a farce.

Ptoleme

pre 13 godina

The oddity is that Serbs have mass graves of other nationalities at their capital's doorstep yet they are so brainwashed that they can't help but block anything committed by their precious innocent red hands.

When they construct their own judicial bodies against past war crimes they all chant in unison yet when others do so, they start pointing fingers.

That's pretty hypocritical man.

vegimite sandwich

pre 13 godina

you Albanian hypocrites the investigations should be from 1945 to 2004 the year the biggest war crime took place in kocobo when your so called European values went on a rampage and burnt 50 of our churches and killed 400 Serbs how many perpetrators of that crime have been caught and put on trail you people should be ashamed of your selves but i guess no seance no feeling don't worry your time is coming

Nelli_Canada

pre 13 godina

Good job Prishtina and please do it ASAP. I've waited for this for so long and glad it's finally happening. Serbia MUST pay for crimes it commited against unarmed civilians. Houses can be rebuilt but those dead civilians won't be brought back to life therefore Serbia must pay a price.

Korrik Sofalia

pre 13 godina

Recently published figures of victims data by The Hague Tribunal reveal that only in the short time from March to June 1999 as many as 10,356 ethnic Albanians were killed in Kosovo. These figures in addition refer to a “… departure of at least 700,000 Kosovo Albanians from Kosovo in the ..." same time. Further two thousand persons are still missing. Reportedly around 200 thousand houses, business premises, factories, schools as well as several cultural and religious buildings had been destroyed over the decade until 1999.

The announced establishment of a war crimes institute comes surprisingly late. Nevertheless it sets a signal at the right time: The current public communication and prosecution of war crimes throughout the former Yugoslavia seems to target specifically persons outside Serbia, with particular focus on Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. By this also in Kosovo the fear arises, that the former perpetrator, Serbia, by subtle diplomatic campaigns successfully tries to transfer its image from an aggressor to a victim.

Although publishing most doubtful statements in general, in this particular case the US conservative Kuhner manages to briefly summarize the situation: "All sides were guilty of atrocities; no party – or nation – was more responsible than the other. This is what Serbia has been demanding for years. It has sought to cover its ... national shame with moral equivalence".

Peggy

pre 13 godina

We couldn't even care less about croats...let them all be imprisoned we don't care, but serbia will have te face the past, otherwise we will make sure that serbia pays...we were to kind with serbs in 1943, but the tide will turn again in the future, one day Stalingrad will fall.
(iliri, 1 May 2011 13:24)
======================================

You don't care about your allies? How quickly you forget.
OK, let' see then. You care about Thaci and Haradinaj. They are going to go to prison too.
It's only a matter of time. What is going to happen if Russia goes down? Are you going to for some sort of an army and attack Serbia?
Such big threats from such little people.

CG

pre 13 godina

Instead of covering their crimes by inventing Serb crimes Albanians should train themselves in sports like marathon,running,and triathlon...
They will need it...Very soon..