{"id":8249,"date":"2019-03-26T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/?p=8249"},"modified":"2020-01-24T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:56:13","slug":"human-rights-ngos-mark-anniversary-of-crimes-against-albanians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/en\/human-rights-ngos-mark-anniversary-of-crimes-against-albanians\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights NGOs mark anniversary of crimes against Albanians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Humanitarian Law Center and Women in Black <strong>marked 20 years since the murder of Albanian civilians in 1999 in Kosovo, whose bodies were hidden in the Belgrade suburb Batajnica<\/strong>. The activists joined together in a street performance named <strong>\u201cBatajnica 744: A Buried Truth\u201d <\/strong>during which they covered the names of <strong>744 victims<\/strong> with earth, and then proceeded to march through central Belgrade towards the National Assembly building.<\/p>\n<p>Marko Milosavljevi\u0107 of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights gave a statement that Serbia has been <strong>silent about the mass graves in Batajnica, Petrovo Selo, Peru\u0107ac lake and Rudnici for 20 years<\/strong>, and that legitimacy is only given to victims of Serbian nationality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eThere are over 10 locations from which the victims were transported, and the fact that <strong>744 posthumous remains were dug up a mere 10 kilometres<\/strong> <strong>from here<\/strong> is a testament to the evil about which we must never be silent. We will continue to bring this up and try to educate young people and give them the full context of the war in Kosovo and the disintegration of former Yugoslavia\u201d said Milosavljevi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7204\" src=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija.jpg 760w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-250x132.jpg 250w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-700x368.jpg 700w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-120x63.jpg 120w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-664x350.jpg 664w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-570x300.jpg 570w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-87x46.jpg 87w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-475x251.jpg 475w, https:\/\/yihr.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/batajnica-4-akcija-350x184.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Albanian civilians were exposed not only to NATO bombing, but also to the criminal campaigns of the Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 regime.<\/strong> Armed forces (Ministry of Interior Affairs of Serbia, Yugoslav army and paramilitary forces) committed numerous crimes in Kosovo, all of which culminated during the NATO intervention. The transfer of the bodies of the murdered Kosovar Albanians to mass graves in Serbia constitutes a crime. Four mass graves in different locations were discovered on Serbian soil since 2001. to date. 941 Albanians, murdered in Kosovo during 1999, mostly civilians murdered outside of armed conflict, were found in those mass graves. <strong>The victims found in the mass graves in Batajnica were killed in Kosovo from March 24<sup>th<\/sup> till May 22<sup>nd<\/sup> 1999.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UNMIK Office on Missing Persons and Forensics claims that 744 human remains belonging to Kosovar Albanians were found in Batajnica, on the outskirts of Belgrade. 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