The Fright Night “” in Mitrovica

The Mitrovica municipality and the Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms have hosted the table today dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the night massacre between February 3rd and 4th of 2000, by Serbs, which took place in northern Mitrovica.

In addition to the victims' family members, Mitrovica Mayor Agim Bahtiri, deputies of the Kosovo Assembly, deputy ministers, and citizens participated. Mitrovica Mayor Agim Bahtiri said he remembers with great moral, human and spiritual pain the massacre of 19 years ago.

It's a day of wickedness, a day of mourning, of sacrifice, a day of grief that we remember today with great moral, human pain, but also spiritual. We've always expected bad from Serbs, but what happened 19 years ago, that massively, subtle and criminal without any human respect kill in their homes in front of family, we didn't expect”, Bahtiri said.

Kosovo Parliament MP Glauk Konjufca has called it the massacre of Mitrovica's expulsion and cleansing by Albanians. According to him, what happened that night indicates that for a part of Kosovo, the war is not over in June 1999.

I think that what happened at night between February 3rd and 4th of 2000 is the massacre of the expulsion and cleansing of Mitrovica by Albanians. Indeed, what happened that night indicates that for some part of Kosovo the war was not carried out in June 1999, but continued even after that date. We should always view them as crimes of the Serbian state, not just individuals or gangs. Our pain will always be with families of those killed, families that in Kosovo and freedom never had justice”, Konjufca stressed.

Meanwhile, Halit Baran, chairman of the KLMDNJ in Mitrovica, has indicated that Serb criminals night between February 3rd and 4th of 2000 organised the most horrible and cruel action, killing 10 Albanians, injured 25 others while mistreating 92 Albanians. He argued that this massacre by the way it was committed is the most painful, because citizens were betrayed and killed in treachery, because they thought they were safe from the presence of international forces.

Serbia's “Criminals led by their now-known extremist leaders who were in touch with representatives of international organisations, seeing that Albanians are not giving up their properties, at night between February 3rd and 4th of 2000 organised the most horrible and cruel action. They killed in their homes 10 innocent Albanians of all ages and genders, injured 25 others, very seriously mistreated 92 people, where two of them then died on February 27th and 28th at the Pristina hospital. This massacre for the way it was committed is the most painful, since these citizens were betrayed and killed in treachery because they thought they were safe from the presence of the international forces”, Baran said.

On the other hand, Isa Mustafa, the survivor of one of the massacres in Mitrovica, has expressed dissatisfaction with the way this table is organized. I'm affected by this being organised in this form. Family members should also be asked what their problem is. So this continues, Mr. Glauk, you are the youngest and the political hope in Kosovo. With a five or ten minutes to end this way”, he said. Otherwise, before the table, citizens lit candles in September “Meshe Uka” in respect and commemoration of those killed on this night of terror, while a short documentary about those who survived the massacre also appeared for those in attendance, Kosovas reports.