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Finding perpetrators of crimes against children in Gorazdevac

Belgrade, 13 August 2017

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said today that genuine reconciliation and a common future under the umbrella of the European family of nations will be possible only when the killers and criminals in Kosovo-Metohija are no longer celebrated as national heroes.

Author: Fonet

Speaking at the marking of the anniversary of the killed Serbian children in Gorazdevac in the Memorial room "Kosovo victims", Dacic repeated a call to institutions in Kosovo-Metohija and the international community to take measures to bring to justice the perpetrators and masterminds of murders in Gorazdevac and other places throughout Kosovo-Metohija.

The appalling massacre of innocent children, murdered only because they were Serbs, committed in order to send a message to the rest of the Serbs there is no room for them in Kosovo, warned the Deputy Prime Minister.

UNMIK police commissioner, as he recalled, then said that he would roll over every piece of land to find killers of children, and apart from UNMIK, this crime was condemned by representatives of KFOR, the European Union, the United States, France and Russia, while the US representative to the UN Security Council called this act "a horrible crime".

Author: Fonet

According to Dacic, the then State Department spokesman assessed then that "those who committed a crime against innocent children are enemies of peace" who "attacked the future of Kosovo".

Despite all that, even today, 14 years after the crime, there is no justice for Ivana Jovovic, Pantelija Dakic and their families, said Dacic, adding that there is no justice for the victims of crimes against Serbian reapers in Staro Gacko, where 14 people were killed, of whom the youngest was 17 years old.

Today, terrorists and perpetrators of horrific crimes are free in Kosovo-Metohija. This sends the message of "democratic and multi-ethnic Kosovo" that exists only in advertising performances of the Kosovo quasi-state he said.

Dacic called on the institutions in Kosovo-Metohija and the international community to take measures to bring perpetrators of murders in Gorazdevac and other places in Kosovo-Metohija to bring justice.