Odalovic: 2 days ago we again buried Ranko, who died from NATO bombs. Who was bothered by him dead?

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Serbian Assembly's Secretary General Veljko Odalovic told RTS that Ranko Grujic, who was killed by NATO bombs, was laid to reast once again near Pec (in Kosovo) two days ago, and that the desecration of his grave is only one example of similar incidents happening in cemeteries there.

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Veljko Odalovic told the morning program that no conflict in the Balkans in recent history started because we ourselves wanted to go to war against each other, or because we could not live together - it was always in the interests of someone else who caused and supported those conflicts.

"We never reached any peace amongst ourselves, someone always imposed peace and left it with open questions. There are many unhealed wounds left from all conflicts, these are fratricidal wars, wars that leave destroyed families, areas, and create chaos that cannot be solved by a decree or a document wherever it was signed and whoever stood behind it," said Odalovic.

Many who stand behind these signatures, these documents are later removed in the implementation phase, he added.

"The Balkans is being destroyed from the outside, and we on the inside act like the last... I won't say what - we take up arms and fight and leave many unresolved issues," Odalovic stressed, adding that it doesn't matter which empire this is about.

Two days ago, the remains of Ranko Grujic, who died from NATO bombs, were buried again in Brestovik near Pec. He was laid to rest during the war, but his grave was desecrated in 1999 and the body taken away.

When asked what it was like in Brestovik, Odalovic pointed out that this is not the only case where (Serb) graves have been desecrated.

"Ranko died during the NATO aggression, he was buried in a dignified manner, but his grave was then dug up, we cound't find a report that would direct us to where the body had been thrown away," said Odalovic.

According to him, the remains were later found on a grave in Pec, because some repairs were being done there and DNA samples confirmed that it was Ranko.

"The second funeral, something that was especially difficult, people wondered why, who was bothered by a dead man, and at the foot of the mountains near Pec, on a beautiful day, there was a sad sight and hopelessness of people who understood in such a place how unsafe everything is and that it can happen to them who are alive, if it happens to the dead," said Odalovic.

"The appeal to the International Community (was) to open their archives, this had to be recorded by some KFOR unit or soldier who found the body," said Odalovic.

He added that the bodies of seven Serbs had been found in Djakovica a few years ago, the event was recorded in 1999, there were pictures, bodies.

"We waited for 19 years to access the documentation which KFOR created but did not share, in order to find the Sutakovic family in a bunker, where three minor children were killed along with their father and mother, who were murdred in the most brutal way," he said.

As Odalovic stressed, Serbia is asking the international community to make Pristina, the so-called KLA, which presents itself as a (military) formation, to open those archives, to let us see what happened to those people because they did not get lost in the woods, they were kidnapped and most of them were brutally executed, and the question remains where the bodies are.

"To have information about the places of burial. Belgrade is behaving extremely responsibly towards that, Belgade is ready to shed light on the fate of the missing," Odalovic concluded.

(Telegraf.rs)