Campaigning British Serb lawyer fights for justice in Kosovo
August 28, 2017 Britic speaks to Jovanka Savić, the London-based human rights lawyer who says that justice has been denied to Serbian families in Kosovo for too long. And she is taking their case to the Court of Appeal. Click here to support this legal case on behalf of Serb families in Kosovo. <https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/the-right-to-a-remedy-for-human-rights-violations/?utm_campaign=the-right-to-a-remedy-for-human-rights-violations> Jovanka has been fighting in the law courts for Britain to own up to its part in the gross violation of human rights of Serbs and other minorities in Kosovo. Since June 1999, following the NATO assault of former Yugoslavia, the minorities in Kosovo – especially the Serbs – have been murdered and ethnically cleansed. The minority that remain cling tenuously to what survives of their lives while in Priština, the ethnic Albanian ‘war parties’ encircle parliament looking to seize power. Some 30,000 Serbs lived in Priština, the main city of the Serbian heartland where their families have dwelt for centuries. Today just 30 Serbs live in Priština. Many of the priceless cultural heritage of their forefathers were razed to the ground. The situation was so calamitous that the Chief Prosecutor of the EU Task Force concluded that a crime against humanity had been committed at the time. Yet to date not a single person has been convicted of any crime against a member of the minority population of Kosovo since that date. It might be easy to conclude that justice is impossible when gangs of lawless thugs and terrorists roam the province with complete impunity. However, the KLA (terrorists who have since been rebranded by the Western media) and their progeny acted under the watch of those who claim to be guardians of human rights, law and order in Europe and throughout the world: * UNMIK is the UN mission to provide security to the province since June 1999 * EULEX is the EU-sponsored mission of several thousand police and judicial personnel active in Kosovo since 2008 * The EU has given more than 2 billion euros to Kosovo since the heartland was amputated from Serbia * FFOR is a “peacekeeping” force for Kosovo led by NATO, the very organisation which violated international law and bombing Yugoslavia, including Kosovo Britain has supported all of these institutions, both financially and with military and other personnel. That’s why Jovanka has turned to UK courts in her action of 2014 which was funded through Legal Aid. The High Court ruled in favour of the Ministry of Defence but mainly through a technicality – were the serious human rights breaches the responsibility of the UK or UN? The Court of Appeal granted permission to challenge this ruling. However, Legal Aid funding was withdrawn. So Jovanka has turned to our community to fund this last gasp effort for Serbian families in Kosovo to finally see justice. Her CrowdJustice appeal has raised over £1,000 in less than a week…but it needs to reach £5,000 to go ahead. Moreover, Jovanka needs to tell the Court whether she will get the funds to proceed with the case by 5 September. Every Sunday, we pray for the salvation of Serbs who are suffering in Kosovo. Now, is perhaps our last chance to support a legal challenge against those in British politics and military who have let down our brothers and sisters, dead or alive, in Kosovo. Please support this CrowdJustice campaign, click below: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/the-right-to-a-remedy-for-human-rights-violations/?utm_campaign=the-right-to-a-remedy-for-human-rights-violations You can check out more about Jovanka’s practise and work on her site <http://savicsolicitors.com> and also on the pages of the Law Society <http://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/office/556389/savic-co> . In 2010, her practise was given a 5-star rating in the Good Lawyer Guide for outstanding legal practise. http://www.ebritic.com/?p=623850