Kurti: Missing issue makes conflict with Serbia impossible to conclude

Vetevendosje MP and nominated for prime minister from this party, Albin Kurti, through a post in his Facebook profile, has spoken of the unemployed.

He said on International Day of the Unemployed, August 30th that talks on normalisation of relations with Serbia have started by forgetting what we experienced.

Kurti has remembered that 1658 people are still missing, and that this issue made reconciliation with Serbia impossible.

The question of the missing makes it impossible to conclude the conflict, reconciliation and a new beginning of Kosovo's relations with Serbia and the people of these two countries. The war destroyed the lives of many people but built bitter memories of unsanitary”, Kurti wrote.

This is Albin Kurti's full post:

August 30th, International Day of the Undead

The passage of time is not a healer for the families of the undiscovered. Only answers can help them look to the future and prevent their anxiety from becoming permanent hatred. ” ) from the International Committee of the Red Cross statement at the Permanent Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Warsaw, November 23, 2004

Eighteen years after the end of the war in Kosovo, 1658 people continue to find themselves missing. People who are the truth of a country are missing. They lack the truth. Are they alive or dead? If they were killed, were they in a mass cemetery or were their bodies burned in a smelter?

At one time, several times during the year, dozens of numbers containing an incomplete pile of bones were returned from Serbia. Many Kosovo families were forced to reopen the graves of their most loved ones to bury even the remains of a limb that came back later.

This used to be a long time ago. Because today everything is stuck with the dawn of the blind. The normalisation of relations with Serbia has developed, forgetting the story we have (for) experienced. If we start and dig the past, then big and terrible crimes will arise. This would weaken Serbia's position over Kosovo, which it does not yet recognise as independent.

In June 1999, in case of the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo, nearly 6,000 Albanians were taken hostage and sent to Serbia. Over 2,050 ended up in official prisons. They were released into small groups over the next three years. The others were declared missing.

Not only kidnapped persons but also their families are victims of this ongoing crime. Families of the missing are anxious or even traumatic.

It has always been too hard for them to see exhumations in Serbia and how corpses remain in the hands of criminals who have killed them. Despite all of this, family members of the dead have never stopped their commitment. Even when they were arrested by the police for breaking public order and calm! Even when it was known that the success of mother activism was just a few sacks returned from Serbia with their sons' bones! They have always sought responsibility and justice from authorities to reach the truth for their loved ones.

But, the issue of unattended hostages, however, exceeds the dimension of their families' problem, and is Kosovo's problem. All of us are lacking, and these words express the compassion and grief of all of us to those who are not with us today but also express our respect for their individual dignity. For us, these people are not numbers but individuals; their issue is not statistics but it is a humanitarian and national problem.

836 Albanians have been found only in the mass cemetery in Batajnica near Belgrade, while dozens more have been extracted from the lakes rivers where Serbia tried to sink its truth. The issue of the missing makes it impossible to conclude the conflict, reconciliation and a new beginning of Kosovo's relations with Serbia and the people of these two countries. The war destroyed the lives of many, but it built up bitter, lasting memories. Restored justice is necessary, and independent courts in Kosovo and Serbia are necessary, many political and human will, finding and mobilizing witnesses and witnesses, compensation for victims. If time heals the spiritual wounds of the living for the dead, it will increase them when it comes to the dead.