Witnesses are dying, the lighting of war crimes in Kosovo is threatened

Until today, no one has been convicted.

I come from the village of Krusha e Vogel and it is known that the massacre has been too great and that 113 people have been found. There's still no find. Kosovo institutions during this period have done very little”.

The best institutions can do is to take care of the village so that it can't be forgotten, whether it's remembered to find the found, or the children of those killed who have been cared for, as in the post-war time when they were young, like now”, says Drinusa for Radio Free Europe.

On the day Drinsha's father was killed, 113 people were killed in this village. Drinusa believes a little bit in institutions, but remains in hope that they will be able to judge the killers someday.

I don't know. Kosovo institutions even 19 years after the war have done nothing ready, but I believe that justice will once be established and that justice will be greatly improved, both in investigations and in everything else, and many cases of war-killed” will be resolved, she says.

While the drenusa remains hopeful that one day her father's killers will be punished, the very discovery of war crimes is becoming more and more difficult every day.

Bekim Blakaj from the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Kosovo says that in time witnesses are fading and witnesses are dying.

The “Gatas are sometimes smaller to offer justice to the victims for various causes, but one of the causes is that even witnesses, age, made it their own. We already have some witnesses, so survivors who are not alive now, are dead and other evidence fades. It is much harder to prosecute war crimes courses, twenty years after these crimes”, Blakaj says.

Blakaj says that with itself because it has been so long, witness testimony itself may differ from what had been given before.

According to him, witnesses “unconsciously inspect in their memory confessions given by others and then their trials before a court are not very creditable”.

The “is incompatible with a statement they gave many years ago or with statements from others (other witnesses)”, Blakaj says.

War crimes in Kosovo were investigated by various local and international mechanisms, but there were very few condemnations.

Thousands of murders, massacres, and violations remain undiscovered today.

In addition to the large number of those killed, the missing still remain over 1600 people whose fate is unknown.