Victims of NATO bombing from Jasenice 15 years without permits for new house

Victims of NATO bombing from Jasenice 15 years without permits for new house

Miroljub Krunic has been trying for 15 years already to get documentation for the house built instead of a home destroyed in the NATO air strikes.

Krunic has almost accepted the insult made to him by the Government’s giving him in compensation for the killed mother and destroyed home, an unfinished house, but is resentful because of problems to make the new house legal because the adequate documentation has been ‘lost’ at the Directorate for Renewal.

The Krunices household in the Village of Jasenice was destroyed on May 18, 1999 in one of the NATO air strikes. Miroljub’s mother was killed on the spot while he was seriously injured. His father, who died in the meantime, survived miraculously. After the war was over, the Government gave an unfinished house to the Krunices in which Miroljub is living today with his wife and 11-year old daughter. He even cannot get a legal electric power supply switch without a documentation relating to the house.

- Formally I am an illegal electric power consumer. But I pay all my bills. However, if we stick to the law strictly, since I do not have a single paper, the house I got from the Government should be pulled down since it is illegal – Miroljub says.

It is also to be mentioned that in his yard, after 15 years there are still ruins of the old house in which his moth was killed. Allegedly nobody is in charge of them either.

- I cannot remove the ruins myself because I do not know what missile hit the house, I do not know if there is radiation and if there are still parts of the missile that have not...