With this act, the Women in Black network, Humanitarian Law Center and Youth Initiative for Human Rights wish to express their sympathies and solidarity with the victims\u2019 families, as well as to support their appeals for the facts about this crime to be established and for all the perpetrators to be brought to justice. <\/p>\n
During and after the armed conflict between Serbian and Yugoslav police forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army, which took place in the Orahovac municipality in Kosovo from July 17-25 in 1998, crimes were also committed against Serbian civilians. The KLA striked Orahovac in July 17, and the villages Retimlje and Opteru\u0161a on July 18, which is why this date is commemorated as the memorial day for the Serbian civilians who were murdered in the Orahovac municipality. <\/span><\/p>\n In the KLA armed strikes on Orahovac and the surrounding Retimlje and Opteru\u0161a villages, five civilians were murdered: Aleksandar Majmarevi\u0107, Borivoje Simi\u0107, Jago\u0161 Fil\u0111oki\u0107, Vekoslav Kazi\u0107 and An\u0111elko Kosti\u0107. Dozens of civilians, largely Serbs but also Roma, were taken and held captive in the former Mali\u0161evo police station building, as well as an Albanian home in the Semeti\u0161te village in the Suva Reka county. The International Red Cross Committee salvaged 60 persons, mostly women and elderly men, and 36 Serbs, three Roma persons and one Montenegrin person went missing.<\/span><\/p>\n The victims\u2019 remains were largely found in mass graves at Volujak near Klina and Mali\u0161evo , near Orahovac. In April 2005, an exhumation of the mass grave in the Volujak village revealed the remains of Banzi\u0107 Spasoje, Bo\u017eani\u0107 Bo\u017eidar, Bo\u017eani\u0107 Mladen, Bo\u017eani\u0107 Nemanja, Bo\u017eani\u0107 Novica, Burd\u017ei\u0107 Miodrag, Burd\u017ei\u0107 Spasoje, \u00d0ori\u0107 \u00d0or\u0111e, Kosti\u0107 Dimitrije, Kosti\u0107 Lazar, Kosti\u0107 Miodrag, Kosti\u0107 Miroljub, Kosti\u0107 Mladen, Kosti\u0107 Neboj\u0161a, Kosti\u0107 Sre\u0107ko, Kosti\u0107 Svetislav, Kosti\u0107 Todor, Kosti\u0107 Vekoslav, Kosti\u0107 Vitomir, Kosti\u0107 \u017divko, Kosti\u0107 Sa\u0161ko, Nikoli\u0107 Cvetko, Nikoli\u0107 Rajko, Patrnogi\u0107 Du\u0161ko, Simi\u0107 Sreten, and Stanojevi\u0107 Krsta. In May 2005, in an exhumation of the mass grave by the hospital in Mali\u0161evo, the remains of Baljo\u0161evi\u0107 \u00d0or\u0111e, Baljo\u0161evi\u0107 Sa\u0161a, Baljo\u0161evi\u0107 Tomislav, \u00d0inovi\u0107 Du\u0161an, Dola\u0161evi\u0107 Du\u0161ko, \u010cabarkapa \u010ceda, Stanojevi\u0107 Aleksandar, Vito\u0161evi\u0107 Sr\u0111an and Vito\u0161evi\u0107 Sre\u0107ko were found. On the Dragodan cemetery near Pri\u0161tina, the remains of Isaku Azem, Isaku Visar and Tomi\u0107 Svetozar were exhumed. Hamza Agron was exhumed near Glogovac. <\/span><\/p>\n Most of the victims\u2019 remains were laid to rest at the Orlova\u010da cemetery, among which the Kosti\u0107 and Nikoli\u0107 family members. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women in Black, Humanitarian Law Center and the Youth Initiative for Human Rights will attend a commemoration on this July 18 – as every year, together with the victims\u2019 families at the Orlova\u010da cemetery, where we will place a wreath with the writing \u201cWe remember the crimes in Orahovac\u201d.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[57],"tags":[406,909,910],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n