Institutions for Signal Lack Banning Weyman

Three days after a young man died after being thrown into Weyman by the main bridge over the lake, criticism of institutions for lack of signs banning washing in the lake and even throwing it from that height.

Through a response, the Kosovo Institute for Justice (IKD) has called for an institutional investigation and accountability, and has found that around the lake located in the predominantly Serb-inhabited north, state representatives have already promoted washing.

Under the Kosovo Water Law, the Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure (MMPHI) in co-operation with the Ministry of Health, Commissions and water service delivery companies, with a sub-lawing order areas for washing. And Administratorial Guides for the Purging Areas states that it would have to be fulfilled as far away as 2018. Determining a certain washing area, according to this Administrative Guide, attracts behind itself the obligation of the company of nine (9) management measures.

The IKD has found that, in terms of this obligation, up until now, there is no public notice whether competent institutions have assigned Uyman Lake as a bathing zone, and on the other hand, politicians have promoted washing.

Furthermore, there are no reports whether washing in this area is allowed or forbidden. Meanwhile, the actual situation is that this lake is currently being used for washing by citizens”, said the IKD response. The “Institutions of the Republic of Kosovo instead of fulfilling legal obligations pertaining to the appointment of washing zones and management arrangements, as required by Law and Administrative Direction, have promoted the lake as a washing zone. Government officials, including MPs and ministers, have gone to Ujman Lake and publicly distributed images of people bathing in the Lake of Uyman, presenting it as a resort and hinting for citizens that this is the area for bath”.

The Weyman Lake serves as one of the most important sources of drinking water in Kosovo, providing drinking water with a considerable share of the population.

According to Article 9 of Administrative Guides for the criteria for determining protected sanitation areas of water resources, lakes and acumulations are classified as surface water resources. This guidance has not been prescribed in any part of it, nor has it been enjoined upon that which allows the washing of citizens.

And the IKD has found that despite this, institutional representatives have consistently promoted Ujman Lake as a washing ground, while <x0 ...raports were that Kosovo police were guarding citizens as they washed in the Lake of Weyman”, Report time.

In all of this situation, being in force of the relevant Administrative Water and Guide Law, not fulfilling these actions can also enforce the responsibility of public institutions in the tragic death of July 27,”, it is said in response.

In the Ministry of Infrastructure they have not indicated whether signs will be taken.

And the deputy director of police for the northern region, Veton Elshani, has told Kosova Press that after the tragic 33-year-old case, it has been discussed with the Hydroeconomic Company “Iber-Lepenc” for signaling.

No, there has been (N. We've talked [to representatives of the Iber Lepenciʹ] after the case, we've told them who's responsible for putting the signs there and I believe that Mr. Iber Lepenci's taking the initiative, because they're responsible for the lake and for these, they're going to work on setting the signs wherever they need to determine the location, the ban area where they shouldn't be washed, Elshan said.

But, company chief “Iber-Lepenc”, Faruk Mujka, has stressed that it is not the company's competence to decide on road signs, while laying the need for co-ordination between institutions.

“They should normally be coordinated, I didn't set signs. I'm gonna have to call you to some law so that signs can be set. As for the infrastructure, in terms of the book "Iber Lepencit" on the dam, in the channel the signs are in. Now I can't put signs on bridges, across the entire highway that runs through Lake”, Muika said. I can't put these things on my own. Normally, we should have coordinates not only with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because there's a lot of stuff involved here. It's the Ministry of Environment and Space Planning, it's the lake. The lake's status is not defined as water for drink, since the water from the Lake of Weiman is used for drink. It has certain restrictions, it's a little operation that requires the combination of many ministries”.

And communication expert Bekim Ahmeti has expressed the need for setting up signs.
While the accident has not occurred as a result of a communications crash or something like that, all it can be is a sign of communication that is stopped by the bridge and it is not exclusively a sign of communication, but it is one of the signs that we propose that we propose that dancing is not allowed from the” road, he said of the KSP, and recommended other actions that could be taken over the bridge. “High fences could be installed so that citizens cannot use the chance of dancing... The bridge is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Infrastructure. That road should be in their jurisdiction and if they don't have a sign of communication, they adopt a”.

According to the European Court of Human Rights ( G Article 2 of the European Convention for Human Rights tasks states not only to refrain from taking life “objectively” but also to take necessary measures to protect the lives of persons under their jurisdiction.

In response to the death of 33-year-old following bridge-throwing in the lake, the IKD has stressed that failure to fulfil legal obligations by institutions, promoting Ujman Lake as a washing zone, the lack of signalism for stopping washing and institutional failure, “could be factors towards the tragic death of July 27,<1>.

In terms of the GjEDN Juristy, these inactions could result in violations of right in life in relation to the citizen who suffered a tragic loss of life and could result in general danger for other citizens”, the IKD reaction said. “In the face of all these circumstances, the IKD requires that an institutional investigation regarding the failure to comply with legal obligations and the allowing of the use of the Lake of Ujman as a washing area, which culminated in the tragic death of July 27th. The IKD also calls for halting irresponsible public communication by officials promoting washing or jumping into these risk-free areas and without adequate signaling”.

On Tuesday, when the third day of research was done, the young man's lifeless body was found that disappeared on Sunday in the waters of the Lake of Weiman after jumping off the bridge.

The body was released after the activism of the Kosovo Security Force, hours after being authorised to join the search teams.

The Emergency Management Agency has been involved in the operation since the beginning.

Apart from KSF and KFOR, members of the police have assisted in the operation.

After KSF has recovered the young man's lifeless body from Lake Weyman, it has been handed over to police and the forensic team. /Periscope/