Vulin seeks justice for Serbs murdered in KiM 14 years ago

LEPOSAVIC - Serbia's Minister of Labour and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin urged the international community in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Tuesday to launch a new investigation into a murder of Serbs in Livadice near Podujevo in northeastern KiM 14 years before and to bring those responsible to justice.

Vulin visited Leposavic and opened for traffic a bridge over the Ibar River there yesterday. The bridge was named after Danilo Cokic, the youngest victim of the terrorist attack on a Serbian bus in Livadice on February 16, 2001.

The attack on the Nis Express bus killed 12 and injured 43 displaced Serbs who were on their way to visit the graves of their loved ones in central Kosovo.

The two-year-old Danilo was killed while being held in his mother's arms, who was eight months pregnant at the time and who was also killed in the attack.

From this very place now, we seek a new investigation to be launched, we seek justice for all the killed and missing, said Vulin, calling on the international community to correct this injustice and finally, 14 years later, find the killers of the Serbs who had been on the bus.

A mine activated on the main road in the village of Livadice on February 16, 2001 blew up the first bus of a convoy of vehicles full of Serbs displaced from KiM who were accompanied by KFOR on their way to visit the graves of their loved ones.

Photo Tanjug/O. Toskic