Fifteen years after the death of 16 RTS employees Facebook Share Today marks 15 years since the NATO bombing of Radio Television Serbia (RTS), which killed 16 workers and the media. Commission for investigation of murders of journalists said on the anniversary of the death of RTS employees that this crime thoroughly and completely examined. Photo: RTV Photo: RTV To mark the fifteen years since the death of 16 RTS employees member of the Provisional Council of Belgrade Andreja Mladenovic will lay flowers at the memorial, Why? And pay homage to the victims, was announced by the city assembly. The bombing at 2:06 oclock at night, were killed Jelica Munitlak (28) makeup artist, Ksenija Banković (28) video mixer, Darko Stojmenovski (26) technician in exchange, Nebojsa Stojanovic (27) and Branislav Jovanovic (50) in the master technicians, Dragorad Dragojevic (27), Dejan Markovic (39) and Milan Nikolic (47) security guards. On this occasion were killed and Dragan Tasic (31) electrician, Alexander Deletić (31) cameraman, Slavisa Stevanovic (32) and Ivan Stukalo (34) technicians, Sinisa Medic (32) program designer, Milan Jankovic (59) precision mechanic, Tomislav Mitrovic (61) The director of programs and free Jontić (54) installer. On this occasion, the Association of Journalists of Serbia stressed in a statement that not yet implemented the entire investigation of war crimes. UNS also stated that it supports and appreciates the previous work of the Commission for the investigation of murders of journalists and that he expects that it will have a key role in uncovering all the killing of 16 media workers . The association has called on the Ministry of Defence and Military Security Agency to the Commission for investigation of murders of journalists make available all relevant facts to determine the responsible for this serious crime. International human rights organization Human Rights Watch in 2000 stated that there was no justification for the bombing of the television. NATO leaders claimed that the attack was justified, a special commission of the Hague Tribunal, which is investigating the case of the bombing of RTS, is not submitted to the Prosecution to initiate criminal proceedings. Former Director of the RTS Dragoljub Milanovic, Belgrade in 2002, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the grounds that the order was not complied with then the federal government and the people and technology policy from RTS facilities in Aberdareva in Hilandarska street. Milanovics sentence expired on September 1, 2012. The Serbian government formed last year International Commission for consideration of the facts that were obtained in the investigations that were conducted on the murders of journalists Dada Vujasinović, Slavko Curuvija and Milan Pantic, a Commission mandate was extended to the case of the murder of media workers RTS in the 1999 bombing. In memory of those killed in the Belgrade Tašmajdan park, at the RTS building, erected a monument to Why?, To which families and friends of the victims ask why they died. City of Belgrade, in 2013 announced a competition for the conceptual design of the memorial for the workers at RTS. A month ago in Košutnjaku is open memorial park Do not Forget, in which he planted 16 trees pyramidal hornbeam, one for each of the slain workers. Commission: Thoroughly examine the plight of workers RTS Commission for investigation of murders of journalists said on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the death of 16 RTS employees that this crime thoroughly and completely examined. Families of the victims have already done much of the work, garnering considerable number of indications or evidence of a possible sacrifice of workers and of Television gave orders that sacrifice, said a statement signed by the chairman of the commission Veran Matic. It points out that, unlike the other three cases from the purview of the Commission, the competent prosecutors office is not actively involved in the investigation and prosecution presented evidence, on the other hand, did not shut case. Attention of the Commission at this time facing the Army and the Ministry of Defense, primarily due to the fact that it has not been fully established role of the competent services of the Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and there are indications that the concerned ministry also has certain documents from which it follows that the military and civil top of the then state were promptly advised of the exact time of the attack, said the statement. As announced, the Commission shall, immediately after the formation of the new Government of Serbia, addressed to the Minister of Defence, with a request for generous help in investigating this case. The Commission has received a lot of response from the Security Intelligence Agency of the documents of the former State Security Department about what the knowledge existed regarding the plans for NATO bombing of RTS. They sought answers from NATO on who made the decision to target media for which it was evident that it was not evacuated and to be staffed by civilians. Question was raised whether the representatives of the alliance and how the Yugoslav authorities have warned that the RTS building to be targeted, as well as to provide data on communications from that period that might indicate who is responsible for all the victims.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:00:04 +0000
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