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KOSOVO: International day for missing persons.


27 April 2011, The International Day for Missing Persons The International Day for Missing Persons was marked this year also, with the anxiety and sorrow of family members of missing persons.

This Wednesday, 27 April, was marked with a variety of activities 12 years after the end of the war in Kosovo and yet the destiny of 1821 persons is still unknown. Family members with missing persons carrying photos of their most beloved ones have walked through the main road of the Kosovo capital in order to raise awareness on the issues of missing persons. A memorial academy was organized afterwards in the ABC cinema hall where the Deputy Prime Minister, who also holds the post of Minister of Justice, Mr. Hajredin Kuçi participated together with other state and public personalities. The Deputy Prime Minister in his speech promised that Kosovo Government shall give all its institutional efforts to find out the fate of the missing persons.

The representative of missing person’s families Engjëll Berisha stated that this day is the most horrible memory day for family members of missing persons, remembering when their beloved ones were taken away from them and then some returned in pieces and bones. There are still other families waiting if their loved ones will return one day in bags. The family members are not satisfied with the work of international and national institutions until now in finding about the fate of the missing persons. Some women representatives from Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina joined in Prishtina to mark this date in order to show their solidarity with families of missing persons in Kosovo.

At the end of the academy a documentary film “Silence of bones” was screened, through which family members directed many critics on the address of the Kosovo Government in regard to their engagement in the issues of missing persons. In the Kosovo Museum an exhibition with artefacts of missing persons was opened as part of marking of this day. On the same day the Kosovo President Mrs Atifete Jahjaga has paid a visit to the town of Gjakova as well as the village of Meja and has promised support for institutions that deal with finding of the fate of missing persons.

Halit Berisha

The association for missing persons “Shpresimi” Suharekë

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