Today, the massacre of Lybenic of Peja is commemorated, where the forces of the Serbian regime, 25 years ago, killed 79 civilians of this village.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, on the 25th anniversary of the massacre in the village of Lybeniq in Peja, paid his respects next to the tombstone of the 79 murdered residents of this village. Kurti said that the Serbian soldiers separated the women, children and the elderly, who ordered them to leave for Albania, while the men were kept there.
“According to the crime scenario, the Serbian soldiers separated the women, children and the elderly, who ordered them to leave for Albania, while the men were kept there. “The Lybenic Mosque that day turned into a crime scene, where Serbian soldiers fired with automatic weapons repeatedly so that no one would be left alive,” Kurti said.
The head of the government asked the justice system to urgently address the cases committed during the war, for which he said the witnesses are getting older. “I hope to deposit as much evidence as possible about the crimes committed here in Kosovo. Meanwhile, I call on the justice system from here once again to urgently address the cases committed during the war, because these crimes have never become obsolete, but the witnesses are getting older. In the Kosovo Police in the past, war crimes were dealt with in the framework of serious crime investigations”, said Kurti.
“We have enabled the trial of war criminals in absentia, even in 2019. During this mandate, we have made the necessary legal changes so that Serbian war criminals face justice, because these crimes, apart from being forgiven, never expire. And in order to accurately document all crimes, we have operationalized the Institute of Crimes Committed During the War in Kosovo, for which 25 positions of experts and officials have already been opened, he added.
