Drecun: All crimes against Serbs must be prosecuted

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Serbian parliament's Committee on Kosovo- Metohija (KiM) Milovan Drecun said Wednesday that all those who had committed crimes against Serbs in the territory of former Yugoslavia, including Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), need to be prosecuted for the purpose of reconciliation in the Western Balkans.

Drecun stressed that there were very strong indications that members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian terrorist paramilitary organization, had committed terrible crimes in the southern Serbian province of KiM.

This has been confirmed in a report by former Special Rapporteur of the Parlaimentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Dick Marty, recalled Drecun, stressing that “nobody will be able to close their eyes to the facts any more as indictments will be issued.”
“I expect indictments to be issued because justice cannot be selective,” Drecun told Belgrade-based TV Pink, commenting on an investigation into trafficking in organs taken from Serbs kidnapped and imprisoned in Kosovo in 1999 that has just been completed and was led by a EULEX special task force headed by U.S. prosecutor Clint Williamson.

He said that Williamson's term was expiring on August 1 and he would have to end it by issuing an indictment for war crime of trafficking in human organs or give it up.

Drecun said that he had high expectations but also large reserves when it came to the work done by the team headed by Williamson, bearing in mind that those who had committed crimes against the Serb people in the region of the former Yugoslavia had either not been punished at all or received very light punishments.
“The time has finally come for justice to open its eyes in Kosovo's, and it largely...