The obligation of the institutions of Montenegro is to provide justice for the victims and their families, within the framework of their competences, and the obligation of the citizens is to nurture the culture of memory of the innocent victims, according to the statement of the Center for Civic Education (CGO).
They said this on the occasion of April 18, the day when six people were killed and five wounded in the first wave in Kaluđerski Laz in 1999, and 11 more people were killed later.
"On April 18, 1999, members of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) killed 6 and injured 5 people, including women, children and the elderly, and it is estimated that they killed 21 more people by May 1999, 11. All killed they were of Albanian nationality, and they came to Montenegro fleeing war, violence and persecution, which indicates that the execution of this crime was motivated solely by ethnic reasons," the CGO added.
According to them, in 2008, the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office (VDT) qualified this crime as a war crime and brought charges against 8 members of the VJ.
"But after seven years of proceedings, all the accused were acquitted, so this remains one of a series of war crimes cases from the 90s that did not receive an adequate judicial epilogue," they said.
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