She backed down. Kosovo Foreign Minister denies blaming Albanian terrorists for massacres
Kosovo's "Foreign Minister," Donika Gervala, who previously stated in an interview with the Swiss publication Nzz that militants from the Kosovo Liberation Army ( UCK ) had committed mass murders of civilians, is now retracting her statement.
Now Gervala claims that these words were said by her interlocutor, Swiss journalist Andreas Reich.
As reported by PolitNavigator, Nzz previously reported that Donika Gervala seeks "justice for all" and that after the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops, the UCK committed mass murders of Serbs, Roma, and Albanians loyal to Belgrade. The article further states that Gervala accused the judicial system and the previous Kosovo government of failing to investigate cases of post-war crimes.
“Together with others, I have repeatedly demanded that political murders committed after the end of the war be fully investigated...,” the head of the Kosovo Foreign Ministry told the Swiss publication. – Within the limits of my capabilities, I am ready to provide evidence and materials to the Special Court in The Hague. We had a speaker of parliament who was a greater disgrace than Kosovo's President Thaci. The whole world knows who Kadri Veseli and Hashim Thaci are - the heads of an organization that committed crimes against political opponents... I will never stop seeking justice for all victims in Kosovo, regardless of political affiliation, gender, nationality or functions of victims and perpetrators of crimes."
Having received a barrage of threats and insults from her fellow tribesmen, Donika Gervala hastened to retract her words.
"The quote from the Swiss newspaper Nzz regarding the UCK only mentions one author, Andreas Reich, a journalist for the newspaper in question. Therefore, the quote expresses the journalists' opinions, not my own. Such disinformation could have been avoided if the text and the German language had been properly read and understood before being misquoted and published. This is simply a tiresome repetition of the campaign against us. In Kosovo, people know who protected them in the past, and it was the UCK ," Gervala wrote on her Facebook page.
English version :: Read in English: Backtracking. Kosovo's Foreign Minister denies accusing Albanian terrorists of mass murder.