Avni Islami, a security analyst, has responded to the statement of what he calls the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, accusing Belgrade of continuing efforts to relativize the crimes committed during the war in Kosovo.

In a Facebook post, Islami wrote that this so-called office commemorates Serbian civilians killed in the Rahovec area in 1999, but never mentions the Albanian civilians who were massacred by Serbia as a result of the genocidal campaign against Albanians that year.

He added that this statement comes just days after a minister of the Serbian Government openly declared that, had she been in power in 1998, she would have carried out ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo.

Islami stressed that in Serbia’s strategy, the main goal remains the relativization of crimes, ethnic cleansing, and the genocidal campaign carried out against Kosovo Albanians during the 1999 war and earlier. He recalled that although Serbia has a War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and a War Crimes Department in the High Court in Belgrade, so far no person involved in these macabre crimes has been sentenced to serve time in Serbian prisons. According to him, this is another attempt by the Serbian regime to relativize the crimes that culminated in 1999.

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They were arrested in April 2024 in the state of Bavaria, after several years on the run. The trial shed light on the horrors the pair inflicted on two girls from the Yazidi community between 2015 and 2017, in territories once controlled by ISIS between Iraq and Syria. Initially, the couple kidnapped a 5-year-old child and later another 12-year-old.

In their apartment, the minors were kept as slaves and endured a true nightmare of constant physical violence, psychological torture, and sexual assault. Beyond the brutal abuse, they were forcibly made to adopt the extremist ideology of their captors. The panel of judges heard shocking testimony about the active and sadistic role of each defendant.

Tuana H.S. is accused of repeatedly raping both victims. Meanwhile, his wife, Azia R.A., had an equally macabre participation in these acts. She was responsible for preparing the abuse room and for applying makeup to the girls before each instance of rape. Furthermore, the woman deliberately inflicted burns on the minors’ bodies and punished them by making them stand on one leg for extended periods.

When the forces of the “Islamic State” began to withdraw in 2017, the couple fled Syria. However, instead of releasing them, they handed the two girls over to other members of the terrorist organization, causing the children’s traces to be lost for a long time. This German court decision marks a further crucial step in the efforts to bring the perpetrators of the genocide against the Yazidi population to justice.

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