Disappeared Serbian journalists in Kosovo

International missions in Kosovo did not conduct proper investigations to establish who abducted or killed journalists and media workers in Kosovo during and after the war, said an investigation launched on Tuesday by the Serbian Journalists' Association, UNS.

It was August 21, 1998 when a team from Radio Pristina was deployed to Zociste in western Kosovo on an assignment.

In the car was radio journalist Djuro Slavuj and driver Ranko Perenic.

Pristina requested the release of a Kosovo citizen who it said was arrested in Serbia on suspicion of war crimes, but Belgrade has not yet publicly responded or provided any details about the case.

There was no freedom for the Serbs

Cica Jankovic left the Center of Pristina, in which she lived, in July 1999, after her parents had left. Recalling the time when, as she says, she herself avoided being attacked or beaten by hiding behind parked cars to avoid "escorts", she says that it was a time when there was no freedom for Serbs.

The fate of two Radio Pristina journalists is still not known, two decades since they disappeared.

These crimes happened between 1998 and 200, and no one has been brought to justice, the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated on its website.

On the evening of September 21, 1999, they responded to the call. A side door was opened, on a bedroom floor they found killed Momir Stokuca, a photo reporter and an associate of Politika (daily newspaper).

Since then, the police have not dealt with this murder. There was never any investigation launched.

The Civil Society Group, which collects evidence about war crimes by Serbs in Kosovo in 1998-99, filed 150 criminal complaints to the Special Prosecution Office in Pristina.

OSCE ambassador to Kosovo Jan Braathu said on Tuesday at the unveiling of a memorial plaque to two Serbian reporters who were kidnapped in 1999 and never found that the European organisation will support increased efforts to find the perpetrators of crimes against journalists in the country.

The plaque - that has been destroyed six times in the past by unknown perpetrators - is located near the Velika Hoca-Zociste road where Radio Pristina journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic went missing on August 21, 1998.