The resolution of the American Congress conditions Serbia for clarifying the case of the Bytyqi brothers
The revelation of the murder of three Albanians with American citizenship in 1999 in Serbia may determine the diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Serbia.
This is stated in the text of the resolution that the US Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee approved regarding the execution of the Bytyqi brothers.
These three brothers were arrested in Serbia for illegal border crossing in 1999 and after their release they were executed there.
The corpses of Ylli, Mehmet and Agron were found in 2001 in an unmarked grave near a police training camp in Petrovo Selo, near the town of Kladovo. Their hands were bound with wire, their eyes covered with gauze, and each skull had a bullet hole: they were executed on the spot. They were found on a mass grave containing the corpses of 67 men and women from Kosovo.
Until this day, there are no arrests as accused for the murder of the Bytyqi brothers.
In the issued resolution, concrete measures are requested from Serbia to resolve this case, or diplomatic relations may be damaged.
Progress in resolving this case, or the lack of it, should remain an important factor determining the further development of relations between the United States and the Republic of Serbia.
This resolution was made public by Kosovo's ambassador to the US, Vlora Çitaku, who said that she is impressed by the determination to resolve this case.
"I bow before the determination of parents, family members and the Albanian-American community who persistently worked and never gave up their demand for justice," she wrote on Facebook.
