Hoti: Normality Without Justice and the Truth About Missing Ones

In the footnote to the Day of Missing Persons during the recent war in Kosovo, there are today becoming prayers at the Monument of Missing Persons near the Kosovo Assembly.

Kosovo's incumbent Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, along with his cabinet, representatives of associations and family members, has commemorated missing persons during the recent war in Kosovo, placing flowers near the Monument of Missing Persons.

Government Commission for Missing Persons Chairman Andy Hoti said the issue of the missing is not an individual wound, but a wound affecting the entire Kosovo society.

He stressed that normality cannot be achieved without the dawning of truth and the establishment of justice.

According to him, the disappearances, killings and hiding of troops in mass cemetery are crimes against humanity and pure genocide, for which justice is still required in international institutions.

Hoti underlined the determination that will not stop until the fate of the last missing person is known.

The missing and our wound is not an individual wound, but it is a plague that affects our entire society. It's a wound that can't be normal without the truth and justice coming to the country. The missing cannot heal like wounds only over time. This plague will be healed only when justice is established and the truth is shown in the family. The disappearances, killings, or even sending troops to the refrigerator or to various devices in mass graves in Serbia are not mere acts of war. They're crimes against humanity, pure genocide. The kind of crime that today's world actually doesn't see often. So this crime has to have justice, which unfortunately we're still looking for in international institutions and wherever we can. We, Kosovo, citizens of Kosovo, will not stop until the last missing person knows his fate”, Hoti said.

Homazhe also made Great Britain's Ambassador Jonathan Hargrees, reports the KP, broadcasts Periscope.

After the end of the war in Kosovo in 1999, about 6,500 people were missing. Since then, several exhumations have been carried out in mass cemeterys in Kosovo and Serbia, and so far about 70 per cent of the missing have been found.

Recent excavations were made in the Biszha in Gjakova, where more than 10 Kosovars killed during the war were found./