a minute ago22 years from killing 86 civilians in Kralan, Gjakova
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)It was April 2nd 1999, the day in the village of Kralan in the municipality of Gjakova that Serb military and police forces separated several hundred boys and men from the group of 1,500 Albanians who had abandoned seats to escape the Serb crimes that had swept Kosovo. Others were ordered [...]
It was April 2nd 1999, the day in the village of Kralan in the municipality of Gjakova that Serb military and police forces separated several hundred boys and men from the group of 1,500 Albanians who had abandoned seats to escape the Serb crimes that had swept Kosovo. Others were ordered to go to Albania.
Two days later, April 4th, by the group of boys and men who have been held in the meadow, all the time surrounded by waterless and foodless tanks, a large number have been released. 86 young men were held, including 11 minors. Since that day, since then, none of them have been seen alive.
The Humanitarian Law Fund in 2013 had filed criminal charges against several Yugoslav Army superiors for the crime in Kralan. On this occasion, it was reported that the bodies of 18 of those banned boys and men were found at a mass cemetery in Serbia, in the cemetery, which was found near Peruca Lake, in the municipality of Bajina Basta.
The Fund, based on statements by dozens of witnesses, has identified six superiors of the Serbian army and police who have been in the highest positions of the entities allegedly committed crimes.
Regarding Serbian crime committed in Kralan, in December 2014 a letter chief prosecutor at The Hague has been sent to the head of the Association “Family and Hope” Ariphete Bytyqi.
On behalf of the families of 86 victims of the massacre, Bytyqi is seeking from Serge Brammertz that “be investigated for killing 86 Albanian civilians by Serbian police on April 4th 1999 in the village of Kralan”.
The Bytyqi in his letter recalls that to this day, none of the culprits have been brought to justice.
