Two years have passed since the massacre of Serbian children in Gorazdevac - Perpetrators of this crime still not found
The inconsolable pain that the crime in Gorazdevac has left for the parents of victims Ivan and Panta, their schoolmates, friends and neighbors, and all Kosovo and Metohija Serbs is made all the worse by incomprehensible fact that the representatives of the so-called international community in Kosovo and Metohija and local security officials have not found the perpetrators of this horrible crime.
Horrific scene after massacre on banks of Bistrica River in Gorazdevac, August 13, 2003
KIM Info-Service, Gorazdevac
August 13, 2005
Exactly two years ago today a tragic event occurred in the village of Gorazdevac near Pec when Albanian extremists opened fire from automatic weapons on a group of Serbian children bathing in the Bistrica River, killing two boys and wounding several others.
Few crimes against unarmed civilians have caused as much pain as the massacre in Gorazdevac because it showed that in their intents to expel the remaining Serbian population from this region, the extremists would not flinch from taking the lives of innocent children.
The inconsolable pain that the crime in Gorazdevac has left for the parents of victims Ivan and Panta, their schoolmates, friends and neighbors, and all Kosovo and Metohija Serbs is made all the worse by incomprehensible fact that the representatives of the so-called international community in Kosovo and Metohija and local security officials have not found the perpetrators of this horrible crime.
Not only the perpetrators of the massacre of Gorazdevac but also the criminals who slaughtered the Serbian harvesters in Staro Gracko; who blew up the Nish Express bus; who murdered and set fire to the members of the Stolic family in Obilic all remain free. And they are not the only ones for there is hardly any postwar crime that occurred in Kosovo and Metohija where the victims were Serbian civilians where the criminals who committed it have been found and brought to justice.
HORROR!
Bogdan Bukumiric (15) In the attack of Albanian terrorists in Gorazdevac
pancreas and diafragma blown up, hits in chests and head
Lest it be forgotten - Picture from the front page of the papers
We cannot help but ask whether the international and Kosovo police is truly unable to find these criminals or if they are unwilling to finally confront the organized groups of extremists who for more than six years have been waging a campaign of terror against everyone wishing a peaceful and dignified life regardless of their ethnic origin and religious affiliation.
As we await another visit from Mr. Kai Eide, the special rapporteur of the United Nations Secretary General tasked with assessing standards that have supposedly been fulfilled, we must ask the completely legitimate question: What kind of standards can we talk about in Kosovo and Metohija when, during a time of supposed peace and in the presence of almost 20,000 armed KFOR soldiers and several thousand international policemen, crimes such as this which have met with universal opprobrium and condemnation - remain unresolved? Moreover, the question must be asked who and in whose interests is persistently hiding the truth that the postwar peace mission of the United Nations in Kosovo and Metohija, based on its (lack of) results, is one of the biggest failures and most shameful peace missions in the world, and that its sole achievement is camouflaging numerous ethnically based crimes that have been committed, including murder and attacks on physical persons, the destruction of their property and the devastation of Orthodox Christian holy shrines.
From the funeral of Panto Dakic and Ivan Jovic, victims of the massacre
These crimes are not crimes committed by individuals for which society and the leadership governing it bear no responsibility. If that were the case, society and its officials would certainly identify the transgressors and bring them to justice. The fact is that the most serious crimes that have been committed in Kosovo and Metohija remain unresolved to this day clearly suggests that there is a conscious and planned campaign to cover up crimes and somehow rationalize them.
The only consolation we have in this society based on injustice and hypocrisy is God's justice, which will sooner or later catch up with all those who want to build a future for their own children on the blood of the innocent. This justice frequently comes late but never fails to come at all "for nothing is covered that will not be revealed" (Mat 10:26, Luk 12:2) as history has borne out time and time again.
ERP KIM Info-Service 13-08-03
(Newsletter from August 13, 2003)
MASSACRE OF SERB CHILDREN IN GORAZDEVAC
Two killed, at least five seriously wounded in terorrist attack - Albanians stone and set on fire one of the cars transporting injured Serb children - Great unrest in Serb enclaves throughout Kosovo and Metohija - Bishop Artemije strongly condemns crime
Gorazdevac, Gracanica, August 13, 2003 Unknown persons opened machine gun fire on Serb children bathing in the Bistrica River not far from Gorazdevac, Pec municipality. According to preliminary information two Serb children were killed and at least five others wounded.
Panta Dakic (10) and Ivan Jovovic (20) were pronounced dead at Pec Hospital while Bogdan Bukumiric (15) and Nikola Bogicevic are in critical condition. Also seriously wounded were Dragana Srbljak (14), Djordje Ugrenovic (20) and Marko Bogicevic, said Sladjana Todorovic of Gorazdevac, who was with the wounded children in Pec Hospital.
Bogdan Bukumiric is scheduled to be transferred to Belgrade by helicopter during the day. According to reports from the field, Albanians stoned the vehicle of Milovan Pavlovic while he was attempting to drive some of the wounded children to Pec Hospital. Pavlovic sustained arm injuries. Local sources report that the attackers also beat the wounded child in Pavlovic's vehicle.
- The children were bathing today in the Bistrica River, some 500 meters from the center of the village, when they were targeted by machine gun fire by unknown persons at about 13.30. Three rounds were fired. KFOR and UNMIK police have not conducted an investigation at the site of the attack, although members of the UN military mission helped to get from Gorazdevac to Pec Hospital", explained Sladjana Todorovic.
Gorazdevac today is full of great unrest and fear. The nuns of the Pec Patriarchate and the monks of Visoki Decani have urgently requested KFOR to allow them to enter Gorazdevac. The sisterhood of the Pec Patriarchate could not get an escort and the Decani monks are still waiting for a positive response from KFOR to provide them with a military escort.
- This is an unprecedented crime. In Kosovo and Metohija for four years there has been no Serbian Army or police, who Albanian terrorists claimed were their enemies, and they are killing our children. In the past Serb children have been the targets of grenades and run over by cars, and now they are being perfidiously killed when they are swimming in the river - said Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren, commenting on today's terrorist attack near Gorazdevac.
The Serb village of Gorazadevac is located near Pec and security is provided by Italian KFOR troops. It is still the home of some 1,000 Serbs, half of the village population prior to the arrival of the UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija. The village has a primary school and two secondary schools, one technical and one economic. In order to obtain basics for life, residents are dependent on military and police assistance or forced to travel to northern Kosovska Mitrovica by escorted convoy.
Blood of innocent victims still cries from the grave
(from the funeral of Ivan Jovic)
