More Obligation Required for Warless

Zenepe Xhemajlaj from the village of Raracaj recalls the horror of that day, when in Me alone the Beqaj family were killed 24ions by Serb paramilitary police and military forces. Zeynep there lost her husband and son.

” My husband, my son, is also a baca Hasan.”, she said.

Selim Zyber from the village of Mulliq in Meya has also lost his family members. He says that of this massacre, 16 people are still missing.

“are also 16 missing persons, they may be in a mass grave in Kosovo”, he said.

Haki Sadrija, director of the Association of Family of Undiscovered Persons “27 April” in Mej, told Radio Kosovo that the commemoration of this day, for the family members of persons killed in this country, is heavy, but yet what comforts family members, according to him, is the fact that the largest number of those executed in the Meja massacre have already been found and their mortary remains have been returned to their families. Sadrijaj says that the Meje case, to this day, is a puzzle where no one gives information and yet criminals have not been brought to justice

We have names and surnames stored, but no one has been brought to justice. We have the case of the Korean village military superiors, the Mitsunovic family. The people's selection in the Meya massacre has made our fellow villagers”, he said.

Sadrijaj also speaks of the problem of the memorial complex and the cemetery that has begun to deteriorate. He says the complex, as part of the cemetery, has been completed, except for 21 people still unidentified. He says he's done an ad hoc job.

Every time there's atmospheric rainfall, we have to tear down the cemetery, we need to intervene why they say they're sinking. Even the amphitheater has begun to complain”, he said.

Over 1,000, 600 people, kidnapped by Serbian forces during the war, are still considered missing. Today, after 23 years in freedom, for many families in Kosovo, time seems to have stopped. Taught almost every day with an anniversary of death, they await the whitelight of the fate of their family who are considered extinct.

Ahmet Grejcevci of the Association of Familys of Missing Persons says Belgrade will never show the location of the mass cemetery, but with continued pressure from the international community, it can be achieved.

A while ago, Ivica Dacic and President Vujic have threatened witnesses for the cemetery's story in Serbia. This is the greatest damage of a state when democracy will reach and free itself from nationalism and chauvinism”, he said.

Missing family associations call on the international community to increase pressure on Serbia's institutions to be more co-operative in this process, first of all to open the former Yugoslav Army archives and provide information on the fate and whereabouts of missing citizens. / RTK