On the International Day of Missing Persons (August 30), Kosovo commemorates over 1,600 citizens who still have been missing since the end of the war in 1999. In honor of this day, the Kosovo Humanitarian Law Fund (HLC) will inaugurate the Memorial “Tree of Life”, in Plato in George Bush Square. Meanwhile, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR KS) organizes a symbolic action, which will read the names of missing persons during the war.
Yesterday, the leaders of the state, President Vjosa Osmani, the acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, and Parliament Speaker Dimal Basha paid homage to the monument of missing persons on the note of the International Day of Violence.
Osman said that Serbia is committing a crime against humanity and is violated every day the International Convention on Human Rights.
“Beyond the crimes committed in 1998-1999 by Serbia, the forcible disappearance of persons, loved by many families here in Kosovo, it is a crime that Serbia committed daily by keeping them in mass graves, disrespecting the agreements reached in Brussels to uncover these missing the destiny of these missing”She said.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti stressed that state institutions are working with dedication to finding the missing.
“Only during the last year we have tracked over 23 different locations, while this year we have conducted 18 research activities to detect the mortal waste of our loved ones“, Kurti said.
Whereas the Speaker of Parliament, Dimal Basha, demanded as soon as possible the fate of the missing persons.
“This is a moral and international obligation for Serbia to show the location of the massacres and missing persons as soon as possible”He said.
