http://calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=180646121 Serbian president promises to bring killers of Americans of Kosovo origin to justice Released : Jan 18, 2006 11:00 AM BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro-Serbia's pro-Western President Boris Tadic pledged Wednesday to bring to justice the killers of three Americans of Kosovo Albanian origin killed in 1999 in Serbia. Tadic met and talked with Fatos Bytyqi, the brother of the slain U.S. citizens who had joined a unit fighting alongside fellow ethnic Albanians and whose bodies were discovered in a mass grave in Serbia. Bytyqi sought details of the investigation so far into his brothers' brutal killing, the president's office said. Tadic said he was adamant the case would be solved and assured Bytyqi that Serbia's special war crimes prosecutor was working to bring it to trial. Brothers Yili, Mehmet and Agron Bytyqi were living in New York City and working in a pizza business when they decided to leave the United States to fight in Kosovo Albanians' 1998-99 separatist uprising. They joined the so-called Atlantic Brigade, a unit of about 400 Albanian-Americans who fought alongside fellow ethnic Albanians against Serb forces during former President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on the province's ethnic Albanian majority. Not much is known about how they were captured but it is believed they strayed outside of Kosovo's unmarked boundary into central Serbia, where they were put in prison and later executed. Their bodies were found in June 2001 on top of a grave with more than 70 other Kosovo Albanians in Petrovo Selo, far from Kosovo and about 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of Belgrade. Their remains were identified by an FBI forensic team. Serbia's reformist leaders who toppled Milosevic in 2000 promised to find and punish those who killed the Bytyqis, but so far no indictments have been raised. This was Fatos Bytyqi's second trip to Belgrade. On his first visit in 2004, he had accused a top police commander who fought in Kosovo during the war of killing his brothers. Milosevic is currently standing trial at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, where he is facing charges of genocide and war crimes in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia in the 1990s. Yahoo! Groups Links =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
