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Consulat General de la Republique du Kosovo
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Strasbourg, 13.12.2018
NOTE VERBALE
The Consulate General of the Republic of Kosovo in Strasbourg expresses its compliments to
the Head of Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to enclose
herewith a Non Paper of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo.
The Consulate General of the Republic of Kosovo in Strasbourg avails itself of this
opportunity to renew to the Head of Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs the
assurances of its highest consideration.
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NON PAPER
Prishtina, December I 2
th
2018
On the occasion of 70
th
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an annual
commemoration of violation of human rights there is the aim to highlight human rights issues.
Kosovo's path to independence is the process that has been marked with heavy violations of
human rights and International Humanitarian Law. Accordinglythe tribute paid to human rights
as supreme value needs to be observed and respected.
During the period 1981 -1990, over 90% of political prisoners in former Yugoslavia penitentiary
institutions were Kosovars. Between 1981 and 1986, 1289 Kosovo Albanians were convicted on
political grounds, the prison terms ranging between
IO
to 15 years. Violence against the
Albanian language schools had become an ordinary experience due to the fact that the Serbian
regime had introduced a segregation scheme in elementary and secondary schools. On 20-23
March 1990, the Serbian regime has poisoned over 7.000 Kosovar children. Later on, Mr. Stipe
Mesic, former Yugoslav President, confirmed it as a mass intoxication as well as on international
level. In a short time, 140,000 Albanians were fired from publicly owned companies.
The decade of systematic abuse of human rights ( 1989-1999) ended in an unprecedented
international armed conflict and the final status of Kosovo, as evaluated by the International
Court of Justice, also came as a result of international armed conflict. During the conflict, about
2000 children were assassinated. Yugoslav Army and Police of the Republic of Serbia have
maintained raping women as a method of warfare. 20.000 women has been raped.
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BATAJNICA
Batajnica is located on the outskirts of the northwestern part of Belgrade in the Municipality of
Zemun. In the urban area" 13 Maj" there is a small community, during 1999, there was a Training
Center of the Anti-terrorist Special Unit of the Ministry Interior(SAJ).
According to the exhumation experts report published on November 24
th
2005, and signed by Jon
Sterenberg, the head of excavations at the International Commission on Missing Persons
(ICMP), the Forensic Office identified 705 bodies were taken out of the cemetery in Batajnica.
Causes of death for 535 individuals were covered in mass graves in Batajnica and Perucac; 531
of them died from a gunshot wound, of which 300 were shot in the head.
PETROVO SELO
Petrovo Seto is a village located on the eastern slopes of Mount Miroc, located in the
municipality of Kladovo. During 1999, there was a training center of the Ministry Interior of
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Republic of Serbia the same place where PJP members received training. Occasionally the
members of the Special State Security Operations Unit.
Between June 25
th
and 28
th
200 I, a team of Forensic Institute experts exhumed two mass graves
discovered in Petrovo Selo in the presence and monitored by the ICTY and HLC. The report
produced by the exhumation experts says that 75 people were exhumed from two mass graves in
Petrovo Selo, near the police training center.
It
was found that 53 of the victims died of injuries,
20 of them were shot in the head.
LAKE PERUCAC
Lake Perucac is located in the municipality of Bajna Basta in western Serbia. The exhumation of
a mass grave was discovered near the lake, which began on September 6
th
200 I. The legal
investigation ended the exhumation of the mass grave on September 14
th
on the same year.
According to the exhumation experts' report, at least 48 bodies were completely exhumed from
the mass grave near Lake Peru~ac. The remnants of the people who were taken from that
location, where it found 48 bodies were complete and 84 bodies were incomplete.
THE ORIGIN OF CORPSES FOUND IN MASS GRAVES IN SERBIA
Corpsesdiscovered at the mass graves in Batajnica originated in Kosovo. Kosovo ethnic
Albanian victims executedin Kosovo during the period from March 24
th
to May 22
nd
1999 were
mainly in Suhareka/Suva Reka, Gjakova/Djakovica, Peja/Pec, Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje,
Prizren, VushtrriNucitrn, Lipjan. A number of assassinated personsare from Mitrovica,
Rahovec/Orahiovac, Podujevo, Istog, De~an/Decane.
FUSHE KOSOVE/KOSOVO POLJE
According to witness statements, the crime in Fushe Kosove / Kosovo Polje was committed by
members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. During the conflict in
Kosovo, well known criminal in both wars: in Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegovina Zeljko Arkan
leading his Unit "Tigers", the Special Anti-Terror Division of the Public Safety Division (RJB)
and "Vukovi sa Vucjaka", a unit that came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, operated in Fushe
Kosove / Kosovo Polje.
The remains of 30 victims from Fushe Kosove / Kosovo Polje were exhumed in Batajnica, while
22 others were discovered after the end of the conflict in the territory of the municipalities of
Prishtina and Fushe Kosove
I
Kosovo Polje.
SUHAREKA/SUVAREKA
Assassinationof 49 family members Berisha. Family Berisha on March 26
th
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999, among whom
were 12 men, while the rest of the victims were women and children, most of them were killed in
the "Calabria" pizza in Suhareke / Suva Reka.
The crime in Suhareke / Suva Reka was conducted by members of the Department of Internal
Affairs of the Republic of Serbia based in Suhareke / Suva Reka (OUP). The remnantsof the 24
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family members of Berisha family were exhumed in Batajnica, while the bodies of five other
victims were exhumed in Suhareke / Suva Reka in September 1999.
The ICRC Missing Persons List still holds the names of 20 victims of this family.
LANDOVICE (Municipality of Prizren)
The murder of 17 Kosovars of Albanian ethnicity, including five women and seven children, on
March 26
th
1999 were assassinated. The crime in Landovice was committed by a joint activities
of FRY (VJ) Army lead by the Ministry of Interior of Republic of Serbia.
The remains of six victims from the village of Landovice were exhumed in Batajnica, while five
other troops were found in Landovice. The termination of the conflict led to the finding of four
victims found in other parts of Kosovo. The names of the two victims are still recorded on the
ICRC's Missing Persons List.
DARDANIA neighborhood(Peje/Pec Municipality)
On March 27
th
1999 military forces of the Republic of Serbia committed the massacre of 48
Kosovo civilians of Albanian ethnicity.
The crime was committed during a joint operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia
and the Serbian Army (VJ) of the FRY. Support was also provided by the Special Police Unit of
Serbia and some members of the VJ armored battalion, located in Peja/Pec.
The remains of 40 victims assassinatedin Peja/Pec were exhumed in Batajnica; three other bodies
were exhumed in the territory of the city of Peja/Pec. Upon the end of the conflict, the five
names of the victims were recorded on the ICRC's Missing Persons Lists.
LUBENIQ village (Peje/Pec Municipality)
The murder of 48 Kosovo civilians ofAlbanian community has been executed on April
JS
1
1999.
The crime in Lubeniq was carried out by members of the paramilitary units "Jackals" group
(Sakali) under the direct command of security related institutions of the republic of Serbia.
The remains of 29 victims from Ljubeniq were exhumed in Batajnica, while the mortal remains
of 11 other victims were exhumed after the war in Peja/Pec Municipality. Remnantsof the three
victims were found in Lubeniq.
Five names of victims are still registered as missing on the ICRC's Missing Persons List.
SLOVI village (Lipjan/Lipljane Municipality)
Murder of 40 Kosovo civilians of Albanian community, including six women, on April 15
th
and
16
th
1999. The crime in the village Sllovi, based on witness statements, was conducted by
members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the "paramilitaries". The remains of 15
victims from Sllovi were exhumed in Batajnica, while 25 bodies were found in Sllovi and the
surrounding villages.
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NAKARADE village (Municipality of Fushe Kosove/Kosovo polje)
Murder of 16 men, members of the Mirena family, who were massacred on April 215
1
1999. The
crime in the village of Nakarade, according to witness statements, was conducted by members of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic of Serbia and individuals wearing masks, military
camouflage uniforms and other groups around them. Captured Kosovars were executed, and then
bodies were removed by police.
The mortal remains of all 16 victims of the village Nakarde were exhumed in
Batajnica/Belgrade-Zemun.
"Operation REKA" (Municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica)
The murder of 348 civilians, including 36 children in Meja - Korenica - Dobrosh and other
villages near Gjakova, April 2'71'1 and 28
th
1999 - The crimes were committed in an operation
launched under the command of FRJ Anny (VJ) based in Prishtina. Crimes has been
perpetrated by Serbian 63 "Parashutists" Brigade of the VJ and the Military Police Battalion.
The corpsesof 309 victims of this operation most of them Kosovo Albanian of Catholic
community, were exhumed in Batajnica near Belgrade, while the bodies of 26 victims were
found in Kosovo in the villages of Korenica and Meja.
The names of 67 victims are also listed as missing.
GJAKOVA/DJAKOVICA
Asasination of90 Kosovo Albanian civilians between May 7
th
and I I
th ,
1999
Crimes in Gjakova were committed during the conflict by the FRJ Anny (VJ) and the Ministry
of Internal Affairs of Serbia - as a joint operation. Battalionof Military Police, the Territorial
Anny in Gjakova and the 124 PJP brigade has been involved.
The remnantsof 77 victims from Gjakova/Djakovica were exhumed in Batajnica, while seven
bodies were found in Gjakova/Djakovica inteslf and its surroundings, right after the crime was
committed, but also at the end of the conflict.
The ICRC's Missing Persons List still has six names of victims, registered as missing.
VUSHTRRINUCITRNO
The assassinationof 71 Kosovo citizens of Albanian community, including four women and six
children, were expelled from their homes on May 22
nd
1999 and then taken from the refugee line
at the exit of Vushtrri/Vucitrno.
The largest number of civilian casualties resulted in the Pesoma family - 64 members of this
family were killed in "Sitnicka" street in VushtrriNucitrno while the rest were executed in other
places in this city.
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Crimes in Vushtrri/Vucitrno were committed during the conflict by the FRJ Army (VJ - 58
th
Infantry Brigade, 35
th
Brigade of the PJP and the PJP Brigade 122. )as well as members of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The remains of 66 victims from Vushtrri/Vucitrno were exhumed in Batajnica, while four other
bodies were exhumed in Vushtrri/Vucitrno, after the end of the conflict.
One person is still registered on the ICRC Missing Persons List.
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As of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Laws, Kosovo has embodied the
principles of non-discrimination and equal protection under the law.
It
has defended and
promoted the rights of all communities in Kosovo and created the necessary conditions for their
effective participation in political and decision-making processes. The authorities of Kosovo
have fully accepted the obligations for Kosovo contained in the Ahtisaari Plan and have fully
implemented those obligations, including the priority adoption of the legislation included in its
Annex XII particularly the one that protects and promotes the rights of communities and their
members.
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