For seven months 125 missing persons are reported

125 people have been reported missing since the beginning of the year. Family members and their relatives have sought help from the Kosovo Police, to find those people for whom they are not known.

Most of them are reportedly minors and leave home without parental consent.

Security experts say for Kosovo, institutions must take measures to prevent these cases. Meanwhile, the chairman of the KMDLNj emphasises there must be sensationalisation of the opinion.

Almost every day in the Kosovo Police report, people are reported missing. Even this year, there have been over 100 such cases, for which Kosovo police do not specify age or gender.

For the January 1st-31st July 2022 period, 125 cases of disappearances --” -- have been recorded in the police's response to the Kosovo Police Information Office.

Kosovaress learns that most of these cases have been minors and that they belong to the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities.

Chairman of the Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms Behgjet Shala says these cases are difficult to prevent, since minors leave home without parental consent.

“The minor women mostly leave, go create a marriage union or cohabit with their partners, without knowledge and without parental consent. They are mostly members of one community, and in most cases they are minors. They know very well that it's illegal and that they leave themselves even usually takes a week to figure out where they are. Police take measures in accordance with the law, if it is that co-existence or living contrary to laws, then the procedure” begins, Shala points out.

Meanwhile, security expert Avni Islami requires institutions to take steps and prevent cases when parents do not know where their children are.

Each individual who is not among their family is concerned about family, society and the state. So, in this direction, more Kosovo security institutions must work, those dealing with these cases. And become the identification as soon as possible, their location and so that the people who disappeared or were not notified as long as they were in their families, he claims.

Furthermore, KMDLNj chairman Behgjet Shala also speaks of exploiting these minors by persons who are involved in pedophileism. But he in this case requires sensibility of families in Kosovo.

“Here needs to be more work on a sense of opinion. Starting with the family, the family should have greater responsibility for their minor children than where they go, where they work, and where they deal, because the family is responsible, and the police and the courts don't deal with prevention, they don't deal with prevention, but with the consequences”, Shala follows.

We remember that in recent years Kosovo has faced dozens of cases of even minor persons' violations, forced prostitution, sexual assault. / KP