"Public to soon learn about KLA crimes"

Source: Blic, Tanjug

BELGRADE -- War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic says the public will "soon be informed" about the crimes committed against Serbs by the ethnic Albanian KLA.

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The public will also learn "about all the investigated crimes against Serbs in the former Yugoslavia," he added.
"The main problem is the lack of access to witnesses and suspects who are in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, up to 90 percent of them. When somebody is arrested on our warrants abroad, they are not delivered to Belgrade, but to Pristina," Vukcevic told the New Year edition of the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

Asked "when the investigations will be opened," Vukcevic said he is "still working on the Strpci case," and that "events in Srebrenica and crimes in Kosovo and Metohija are investigated."

"The investigation into the murder of Albanian prisoners in Dubrava has advanced far, but we have had to stop. I was looking for an expansion of capacities, but this was not done, so the cases are significantly slowed. We need more people. In Bosnia-Herzegovina 100 work for (the prosecution), while here there are five deputy prosecutors, two advisors, as well as four investigators," said Vukcevic.

The prosecutor believes that he has "failed to do a lot."

"I'm sorry that due to a lack of capacity we were not able to do more in the 'Media-hate-speech' case. Complaints were made against us that we protected persons from the army and the police, in higher command positions. That's not true," the prosecutor said.

"It was legally possible only when the Hague tribunal stopped the investigation against them, we started to criminally prosecute them, and then the attacks against us started," he was quoted as saying.