The President of the Republic of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani accompanied by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, paid homage today at the Memorial Complex in Izbica.
President Osmani said that today in Izbica we commemorate the 147 individuals assassinated by the Serbian genocidal forces.
“This was one of the most terrible massacres perpetrated by Serbia, of the genocidal Serbian state, against the Albanian people. And the crime did not end with the killing and with the massacre of our citizens in Izbica but doubled when the Serbian forces exhumed the dead and reburied them in mass graves in various places all over Serbia and Kosovo. Their bodies were found years later, including the body of six-month-old Dafina, which shows the cruelty of the crimes that Serbia committed in Kosovo,” said President Osmani.
Madam President also added that Izbica is also among the many testimonies that the Serbian state committed genocide.
“Izbica is also among the many testimonies demonstrating that the Serbian state committed genocide with the goal to exterminate the Albanian people. Even today, at this place, we share the pain with all the families who have lost their loved ones, because their pain is the pain of all of Kosovo. Freedom became possible because of all these victims, because of the just war of the Kosovo Liberation Army and of course, because of the sacrifice of all our people. The glory of all those who gave their lives for our freedom will be eternal,” emphasized the President.
