Pristina prepares to arrest some of most influential Serbs

The Press obtained includes the names of certain politicians, police officers, now former employees of the Serbian Interior Ministry, and famous defenders of the bridge over the Ibar, who stopped the ethnic Albanians from crossing over into northern Kosovo back in 1999. According to Vesti, the list was made recently and contains 32 people, 30 Serbs, one Bosniak and one Albanian. The list was made by the Office of the Special Prosecutor of Kosovo and it mostly comprises residents of the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, who are suspected of committing murders between April 14, 1999 and February 4, 2000. Most of the suspects are Serbs, while the alleged victims are Albanians. "The obvious goal of the list is to pressure the people in order to destabilize the north. The mention of certain individuals' names in connection with crimes is an old story, and Pristina has never been able to prove that. On the other hand, the profile of the accusations is such that those crimes are not covered by the recently adopted amnesty," the daily's source stated. Vesti's report contradicts EULEX's claims, that there are no secret or sealed indictments. According to EULEX, their prosecutors are currently investigating 94 cases of war crimes in Kosovo, and there have so far been 28 verdicts. Head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo Aleksandar Vulin said earlier the government was concerned if the secret indictments for war crimes in Kosovo really existed and it had no access to them