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6 hours agoVV procedures legislative initiative for judging Serbian crimes in Kosovo at the site
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Vetevendosje Movement Parliamentary Group has prosecuted in the Kosovo Assembly a legislative initiative for judgment in the absence of Serbian criminals, because 19 years after the war have not yet brought criminals of the Milosevic regime who committed crimes in Kosovo to justice. So said LVV deputy Albulen Haxhiu at a news conference, [...]
So LVV deputy Albulen Haxhiu has said at a news conference, adding that, worse yet, they have not rarely seen unhindered criminals enter the Republic of Kosovo.
She has added that parliamentary debates have recently taken place in the assembly as regards the issue of the missing from the recent war in Kosovo, but one of the demands of the adopted resolution was the drafting of the draft law on judgment in the absence of accused persons.
“We expected that our state would sue for genocide Serbia, but neither did this happen to the popular declarations. So, we today as the parliamentary group prosecuted in the assembly of the Republic of Kosovo this legislative initiative. Thus, legislative initiative for judgment in the absence of Serbian criminals. This bill envisions changing 20 provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code. These articles will no longer be worth the deposit of the Code of Criminal Procedure in cases of war crimes investigations and judgments”, Haxhiu has said.
She added that Kosovo's international and local justice institutions have had names and surnames, as well as evidence of crimes, although there has been no action to try war crimes, so, according to her, this legislative initiative is the only and last form to address this problem to take steps to send war criminals to prison.
“We have prepared the draft law, which is at the centre of addressing the trial issue in the absence of persons accused of committing crimes during the war in Kosovo. Foreign missions in Kosovo, UNMIK and EUEX did not aim at reviewing crimes committed by the state of Serbia in Kosovo to Albanians and others. They have been aware of details of the massacres, violations and thousands of cases of violence by Serb army criminals and police in Kosovo. They had the names and names of the criminals of war, but they never acted. In the same line were the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, even after the proclamation of independence. Many excuses and alibis were presented in these 19 years not to try war criminals from The Hague's international trial to procedural obstacles such as this, and not allowing punishment in absentia, each more unacceptable than the other”, Haxhiu has said.
LVV MP Saranda Bogujevci has said families affected by Serbian crimes have yet to find justice. She said it has proved that judicial processes are extremely important for families affected during the war.
“should be built state mechanisms condemning war crimes, as if courts for war crimes were built in other countries of the former Yugoslavia. We have had the destiny of having EULEX here, where it has failed in the war crimes trials. I have met many families who, in addition to being disappointed with the results of the judgments, at the same time have been offended, damaged in the form of how these judgments have turned out, and this has to change. In my personal experience, on the last chance we had as a family, where the 20-year prison sentence from the war crimes tribunal in Serbia was released earlier before the sentence was completed. It's been very difficult, but what I've come to understand, is that the process that we've had, the decision that was made to sentence and the recognition of the incident that occurred in the family and the crime that has been done, is the «documented, which is known as the crime and suffering we've had during the war. So this is very important for families”, MP Bogujevci said.
