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Serbia welcomes activities on clearing up war crimes in Kosovo-Metohija

Belgrade, 29 July 2014

Director of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said today that Serbia welcomes all activities leading to clearing up of war crimes and their perpetrators, but that it will be satisfied only when final court decisions are passed that will bring before justice all those who committed crimes in Kosovo-Metohija.

Author: Tanjug

Commenting on the statement of the Chief Prosecutor of the Special Investigative Task Force on trafficking in human organs in Kosovo-Metohija in 1999 Clint Williamson, Djuric underlined that procrastination of the investigation is in no one’s interest, of Serbs, Albanians or the international community.

Serbia welcomes every activity that leads to finding those responsible for the monstrous crimes in which, as it can be seen from Williamson’s report, leading figures of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are involved, Djuric said.

He noted that a lot of time has passed, and there is still no justice for the victims, or the settling of inter-ethnic relations in Kosovo-Metohija.

Djuric underlined that 15 years is way too much time, but that war crimes are always triable and Serbia considers that those responsible for the brutal and the most monstrous crimes in the former Yugoslavia, which also took place in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija, must be brought to justice.

Asked to comment on Williamson's claim that a group of people were involved in human organ trafficking, the Director of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija said that competent judicial authorities should judge legal qualifications, but that there is no doubt that in Kosovo there was widespread, systematic and ethnically motivated persecution of Serbian and non-Albanian population and that is a truth that remains registered in the tragic history of this region.

We need that those responsible be brought before justice so that our society and relations in the province and the wider region could heal. War crimes are not subject to statute of limitations and we will never give up the fight for truth and accountability, Djuric concluded.