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They’re still finding bodies buried in Serbia, victims of Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
Over 900 Kosovar Albanian victims have been found to date. https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/17/suspected-mass-grave-of-kosovo-war-victims-found-in-serbia/
Over 900 Kosovar Albanian victims have been found to date. https://balkaninsight.com/2020/11/17/suspected-mass-grave-of-kosovo-war-victims-found-in-serbia/
"The decision to conceal evidence of crimes... was planned as early as March 1999 at the highest level of the government... No one has ever been held accountable before courts in Serbia."
http://www.hlc-rdc.org/?p=33299&lang=de
http://www.hlc-rdc.org/?p=33299&lang=de
Only one Serbian official was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the mass burials and cover-up. https://balkaninsight.com/2019/06/05/vlastimir-djordjevic-serbian-official-involved-in-kosovo-crimes-cover-up/
The 3 Bytyqi U.S. citizen brothers were murdered in Serbia, and even though Serbian President Vucic promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, that has never happened. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2019/10/engel-floor-statement-calling-for-accountability-for-the-bytyqi-brothers
Regardless of the brutality carried out by Belgrade, it has not been pressed seriously by the international community to prosecute perpetrators of war crimes in Kosovo. Serbia’s EU accession is not conditioned on bringing war criminals to justice.
At the same time, the world forced Kosovo to create a Special Court to investigate a questionable report of organ trafficking during the war. No evidence was found to back up these allegations made by European Parliamentarian Dick Marty. https://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes.php?yyyy=2014&mm=07&dd=29&nav_id=91123
Still, the Special Court lives on.
It has jurisdiction over war crimes committed during the Kosovo war *regardless of ethnicity.* BUT, it only pursues ethnic Albanians for crimes against other Albanians and other Kosovar citizens.
It has jurisdiction over war crimes committed during the Kosovo war *regardless of ethnicity.* BUT, it only pursues ethnic Albanians for crimes against other Albanians and other Kosovar citizens.
ANYONE who commits war crimes regardless of ethnicity should be brought to justice. Period.
But, justice must not be a prism through which images of only one ethnicity can pass. Right now, it seems that’s happening in Kosovo with the Special Court, and something has to change.
But, justice must not be a prism through which images of only one ethnicity can pass. Right now, it seems that’s happening in Kosovo with the Special Court, and something has to change.
