19 minutes agoWaiting over two decades for the return of the missing by force
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)April 19th 1999, Ademi Ademi, a surgeon from Mitrovica, had made efforts along with a group of 28 people to leave Montenegro to escape war. In the mountains of Zubin-Potok, 23 were captured by Serb forces, and since then his sister, Lutfie Ademi, no longer knows [...]
April 19th 1999, Ademi Ademi, a surgeon from Mitrovica, had made efforts along with a group of 28 people to leave Montenegro to escape war. In the mountains of Zubin-Potok, 23 were captured by Serb forces, and his sister, Lutfie Ademi, has since been unaware of him. And although 24 years have passed, she still hopes that the brother will return alive one day.
On that day, Ademi, a surgeon by training, had made an effort to escape war with a group of 28 others from Montenegro. In the mountains of Zubin-Potok, 23 were captured by Serb forces, and Lutphia has since been unaware of Adam.
She relates that the news of Adam's disappearance had been revealed to the other brother who lived in Germany while she was in Macedonia, having been commissioned by Serbian paramilitaries to leave her home.
And although 24 years have passed, Lutfia still hopes that his brother will return alive one day.
They didn't take him dead. They took him alive. I ask of them alive. I never lose hope until I see it with my own eyes turning, in a way like this or so”, she says with the lip on oil.
Ademi surgeon was 51 when he was caught on his way to Montenegro. During the war he was engaged in the treatment of Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers (UÇK) and even civilians.
Like Ademi, so far more than 1,600 hard-missed Kosovars have been found during the war.
On the national day of the missing in Kosovo, their family has complained about insufficient work of institutions in terms of whitewashing the fate of the undiscovered.
“There's nobody trying to do anything, because when they did, someone like you did, but they forgot everything, what had been done with ba”, said Nurije Avdiu, who had violently destroyed her brother's son.
While Ademi's sister, Lutfia, says the pain is growing even further when she sees government officials taking nothing to get Serbia to clear documents and notes that would help find her brother and the others missing.
Serbia has all those notes until the European Union West did not pressure Serbia to open their documentations and submit notes on where our most loved ones are”, she says.
In the footnote to the national day of the missing, representatives of institutions said they are working to put more pressure on Serbia to tell the truth about them.
What remains of us is not only to remind people who were kidnapped and eliminated by violence, but also to keep their voice up and work together with all international mechanisms so that their fates can be made white and Serbia can render responsibility and account for all of our citizens who grabbed and eliminated” have been expressed by Chief Prime Minister Glauk Konjufca.
And Prime Minister Albin Kurti, in memory of the missing most violent, paid tribute to the memorials dedicated to those in the capital. From there he addressed the need for justice as he called on the State Prosecutor to translate the evidence into indictment.
Kurti on Tuesday, May 2nd, will meet in Brussels with Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, during which a declaration of the missing is expected to be signed.
There is a particular situation where anxiety is even greater than grief, where anger is greater than mourning. So I expect on May 2nd, from middlemen, from European facilitators, as we have said in Ohrid on March 18th, to deal with this matter urgently”, Kurti said.
And Lutfie Ademi insists that the term must be decided as soon as the term “disappeared by force”.
They're kidnapped by violence, they're not extinct. I don't say that my brother is missing because someone is missing for me, something when he loses for it, and until I know they've taken him away, then I can't say when something isn't known to be gone. I know who took my brother. He can't be gone. I'm looking for brother”, she says.
On the date of the commemoration of the found ones, there has also been an opening of a plaque in Pristina marking the memorial for missing persons from the recent war in Kosovo.
Representatives from the Youth Organisation for Human Rights in Kosovo were provided for signalling this plaque.
Marigona Shabhi, representative of the organisation, said the question of the missing in the Kosovo dialogue must have concrete results, as family members are living daily in anxiety.
Serbia's “Government certainly has the greatest burden, the greatest responsibility, but the Government of Kosovo must bear its responsibility and be co-operative and do its job with the utmost dedication to respect and ultimately stop the pain of all the family of over 1,600 people”, Sohabhu said.
On Thursday, several events have been marked in memory of the found. Within the course of this day, there has been a presentation of the war crimes documentary at the National Library by the association “The Rise of Voice”. /Koha.net
