The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has remembered how in Rezallë of Skenderaj, 98 men and boys were executed simply because they were Albanian. The shooting lasted 30 minutes.
Kurti recalls that after the cruel and barbaric execution on April 5, 1999, the Serbian armed forces abducted the bodies.
“29 of them were found in the mass grave in Rudnica, Raška, in Serbia. From Kizhevak in Serbia, on September 30, 2021, the remains of seven of those killed in this massacre were returned to Kosovo. Among them were also two reunions with bones exhumed years earlier from the mass grave in Rudnica, Serbia,” Kurti wrote on Facebook.
Therefore, Kurti writes, “today and always, I call on international partners to demand from Serbia, as responsible for the killing and disappearance of our loved ones, to fully elucidate their fate and justice for the victims and their families.”
“Local justice must act without delay and with determination, so that the responsible, the order givers, and the executors, are judged and punished. The truth of Serbia’s crimes in Kosovo cannot be covered by the soil of mass graves. We cannot allow oblivion to cover the atrocities that occurred in the war,” Prime Minister Kurti wrote further.
“By honoring the past, with justice for the victims, we commit to the future of our Republic. For an independent Kosovo, where new generations grow up free and safe. Learning from the past, we move forward with hope and determination. Our remembrance is a testament to the commitment to never forget the sacrifices for the dear and sacred freedom. Eternal be the memory of the nation’s martyrs from Rezallë! Glory!”, Kurti concluded.
Source: Botasot.net
