Discovery of mass grave in Zubin Potok: Sister of missing person expresses conviction that her brother is there

The discovery of a mass grave in Zubin Potok has once again brought to the forefront the traumas of war and efforts to clarify the fate of missing persons.

Lutfije Ademi Vokshi, a member of a family that has been waiting for years for news of a relative, shares the same view. She is the sister of the intellectual Adem Ademi, who is believed to be one of the missing persons linked to this case, and she states with absolute certainty that the remains of that group of intellectuals are in that burial site.

“For 25 years we have lived in anxiety and waiting. Seeing the location being investigated and the circumstances of that event, I as a family member have no doubt. Even though there is still no official confirmation, I am fully convinced that they are exactly there,” she stressed.

Recalling her brother’s figure, she described him as a surgeon who had dedicated himself entirely to his profession and served the country in difficult times.

“My conviction is strengthened even by the way they entered that mountainous area… I am the doctor’s sister and I live in Pristina. In the days before the bombings, our meetings had become rare due to fear, but telephone conversations were frequent. He served in Shalë e Bajgorës, he was the chief surgeon of the Surgery department in the 144th brigade. During the fighting, my brother divided his time between work at the hospital and duty in Shalë e Bajgorës, on assigned days. Later, the violent forces declared him unfit for the operating room, under the pretext that patients refused to be operated on by anyone else but him. I have met many of them and they testify that he was a doctor who healed not only with surgery, but also with his words,” she recounted.