Serbian speaking only witness to the murder of Bytyci brothers

19 years after the war and the genocide that the Serbian state caused against Kosovo, there are thousands missing and killed for whom no trial has been made and the culprits have not been found.

Among them, Yll, Agron and Mehmet Bytyci are three Albanian brothers of American citizenship who came to Kosovo to join the war in the Kosovo Liberation Army.

What is known to Prizren-based boys is that after the end of the war in 1999, they had been asked a favor by neighbouring Rome to follow him from Kosovo to the border with Serbia.

The Bytyci brothers in this case end up on Serbia's territory and are then arrested by Serbian authorities on charges of illegally crossing the border.

After serving a 15-day prison sentence, the brothers disappeared in Serbia to find dead two years after they were in a mass grave near the Serbian Police Training Centre in Petrovo Selo.

Ivan Pajik, a son from Serbia on July 9th 1999, was smuggling cigarettes near the training center at Petrovo Selo when he saw three policemen escorting three civilians (later identified as the Bytyci brothers) with closed eyes and bound hands.

Two people had weapons while one was not, this was Goran Radosavljevic (named Guuri)... I've seen them shooting, in the back of my neck, falling to the ground. I'm on a motorcycle. I'm down. Somebody was after me by car, I don't know what car. I went home and told my father what happened”, said Pajik.

Although he could not identify the police who had shot at one of the Bytyci brothers, Pajic says he recognised the former colonel of Serbia's Special Police Forces, Goran Radosavljevic, dubbed éuri Guri.

Life in Kosovo has tried to contact Radosavljevic but he has been unable to talk to him.

Pajik says he understood civilians were the Bytyci brothers only after seeing reports in the media.

What Pajic had seen and heard kept secret for more than a decade until, according to him, he had arrested his father on charges of peace only to frighten him from speaking about killing the Bytyci brothers.

In 2013 Pajqi's father was arrested, who, according to him, has been mobilised in the war with Kosovo and has even witnessed carrying the remains of Kosovars killed in truck-free trucks he himself was driving.

After Father's arrest, Pajic had begun to testify about what he had seen not only in the Serbian Prosecution but also in the American authorities.

After witnessing several times, Pajik says he faced threats as well as in one case almost lost his life in the explosion of his car, which he considers to be attempted murder against him.

On November 16, 2015, I left for the road and the car blew me up, I had burns in my face and body”, Pajic describes.

Pajik managed to free his father from prison, according to him with the American authorities, meanwhile, says Serbian authorities had thought that his father was actually an eyewitness to the murder of the Bytyci brothers.

His testimony, Pajik says he has given it to EULEX authorities in Kosovo along with his father.

He doubts that his father had been poisoned with food during his stay in custody, and the same died in 2016.

For failing to act on Serbia's justice bodies in the direction of resolving the murder of the Bytyci brothers and several other war crimes, Pajic accuses former Serbian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

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Although he had remained silent about the crime he had seen for 14 years, Pajik says now he wants justice to come to the country.

The show, life in Kosovo, has also contacted Serbian prosecutor Dragolub Stankovic, who had dealt with Pajqi's testimony, and according to him, the testimony of this Serbian man is not creditable.