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Kosovo Serbs' Wailing Wall

On July 15, as the photographies of 2,500 killed and missing Kosovo Serbs were uncovered on the Wailing Wall in the headquarters of the Association of the families of the Serb victims in Kosovo-Metohija, the Association chair Simo Spasic assessed that "Serbian state and especially the international community has done nothing to determine the fate of the Serbs kidnapped and killed in the southern Serbian province."

He stressed that, according to the data of the international organizations, over 3,500 Kosovo Serbs have been killed before, during and after NATO aggression, but the Association of the families has thus far compiled detailed information about 2,500 Kosovo Serb victims, kidnapped and murdered in the southern province, "for whose suffering no one has been made accountable".

The Association is appalled by the fact Serbian delegation had left the Council of Europe session where the investigation of the sale of organs extracted from the Kosovo Serbs kidnapped, tortured and killed in Albania was discussed. Spasic added that "it is incomprehensible that strangers discuss such an important subject, while not a single Serbian delegation, not a single Serb was present to represent these families." At the time, Milos Aligrudic, leader of (Kostunica's) DSS parliamentary board, who is also a vice president of the Council of Europe Parliament, sharply criticized Serbia's new ruling coalition which decided to schedule the constitutive session of the Serbian Parliament at the same time when Council of Europe was discussing the horrific crimes Kosovo Albanians have been committing, forcing the Serbian CoE delegations to leave the crucial Brussels session.

Spasic thanked Mr. Aligrudic for joining the families and members of the Association on the occasion of uncovering the Wailing Wall, expressing hope the "state will finally stand up for our victims" and demand responsibility for the lost lives.

He added that the Association will organize a series of protests, because "it will not allow Albanian war criminals to keep avoiding justice, and continue to enjoy the premiership and ministerial positions in Kosovo and Metohija, as a reward for committing atrocious crimes against our loved ones".

Full Investigation Would Lead Straight to Thaci and Haradinaj — So None is Allowed

Vice President of the Parliament of Council of Europe Milos Aligrudic accused UNMIK of blocking investigations of crimes against the non-Albanian population in Kosovo and Metohija province in order to shield the Pristina "politicians" spawned by the gruesome KLA and supported by the Western power centers.

He reminded that the Russian delegation, led by the Vice Chairman of the Council of Europe Constantine Kosachev, had launched an initiative to investigate the charges in Del Ponte's book about some 300 missing Kosovo Serbs who were kidnapped by the terrorist KLA and transported to Albania, where their internal organs were harvested for sale. Unfortunately, Aligrudic said, the actual investigation still hasn't begun.

"If the investigation of these atrocities would be run to its full completion, it would lead straight to Hashim Thaci [current Pristina "premier"] and Ramush Haradinaj [former Pristina "premier", both KLA commanders]. Kosovo-Metohija is not a big place, and there aren't many people there who are not subservient to the notorious KLA leaders currently wielding power in the Serbian province -- and that is the main problem," Aligrudic said during his visit to the Association of the families of the killed and missing Kosovo Serbs.

West Caught in a Vicious Circle of its Own Making

Aligrudic stressed that Serbian state institutions are cooperating with UNMIK in an effort to launch the investigation which would determine the facts about the killed and missing on the territory of southern Serbian province.

"I had the opportunities to talk with director of the state Security-Intelligence Agency [Bezbenostno-Informativna Agencija, BIA], who has plenty of information regarding all this and, despite the common belief that [Serbian] state is doing nothing when it comes to communicating with UNMIK officials in relation to these atrocities, I can assure you that is not true," Aligrudic said.

"The state has done a lot -- both the police and BIA have been doing a lot -- and there is documentation to prove it, but the system created in and around Kosovo and Metohija province has been set in such a way that, as soon as the investigation starts to progress, it gets sent back to the very beginning, forcing it to move in one and the same circle, through political pressures," Aligrudic explained.

He said that "when a certain group of countries decides to sever part of the territory of a sovereign state, as is the case with Serbian Kosovo and Metohija province, all the means become acceptable, including cover-up and justification of the atrocious crimes of the 'politicians' who are today representing this fake state."

"This is the vicious circle the international community is caught in, as it strains to protect the criminals they brought to power", Aligrudic said, adding that it will be very difficult to break through those walls but, nevertheless, no efforts should be spared in trying to break through.