Crime without punishment threatens to be repeated
Albanian violence against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija 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, Director of the Office for Kosovo Aleksandar Vulinc said on Saturday.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Saturday, March 16, 2013
"Crime without punishment threatens to repeat itself," Vulin cautioned in a statement to Tanjug on the eve of the pogrom's anniversary.
"Crimes are imprescriptible, and desire and need for justice do not cease to exist," Vulin said, and called on the international community to determine who is responsible for this violence against the Serbs.
He also pointed out that, due to the power it has in KiM, the international community is responsible and obliged to shed light on the crimes committed from March 17 to 19, 2004.
Vulin stressed that more than 60,000 Albanians took part in this 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.
Vulin reminded the international community that it also has an obligation to make it possible for the refugees from KiM to go back to their homes.
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 churches and monasteries and 10 public buildings.
