The bodies of many Albanians who disappeared during the Kosovo war are suspected of being systematically transported to Serbia. Some ended up in mass graves there, but many also ended up in copper smelters. The team of the newspaper “Tribuna” stayed in Serbia to get the chilling account of witness Ivan Pajic, who saw with his own eyes the unloading of the bodies of Albanian civilians from refrigerated trucks at the Bor smelter.
The story of the bodies of Albanian civilians being transported to Serbia is not unknown. A truck with bodies was found in Lake Drina and an investigation took place. There were witnesses to the transport of the bodies from Kosovo, but no witness has ever been found to indicate the destination of these bodies in Serbia.
30-year-old Ivan Pajic and his father Drago Pajic claim to know about the mystery that has held dozens of Kosovar families hostage and that will reveal one of the most monstrous crimes of genocidal proportions.With their testimony, they tell about the fate of at least one refrigerated truck whose bodies were dumped at the Bor foundry.
Suspicions that the bodies were burned at the Bor foundry have existed even earlier, but investigators have not found any concrete evidence that would help confirm the suspicion. The owner of the meat products company “Agrocentar” in Bor, Ivan Pajic, turns out to be the witness who saw the bodies being dumped from a refrigerated truck at the foundry located opposite his company.
By confessing, the son who was barely 16 years old at the time of the war, says that he is being freed from the burden that has tormented him and his father Drago Pajic for all these post-war years, a burden that still brings threats from former MUP commanders and other high-ranking officials of the Serbian state.
His story, in addition to shedding light on the traces of the monstrous crime, also shows how Serbia, the country for which the EU will decide to start a dialogue to join the union, continues to threaten anyone who might know anything about the crime in which the entire state structure of Serbia was involved, and as such it was a genocidal crime.
The story proves that even theSerbian War Crimes Prosecution, led by Bruno Vekaric, has hidden this evidence.“I was with my father at our company located opposite the Bor foundry. It happened a few weeks before the start of the war (the bombings of 2008). Early in the morning, my father and I saw a refrigerated truck parked in front of the foundry,” says Ivan.
The connection of refrigerated trucks with their meat products business had made them curious to observe.”When they opened the refrigerator door, there were so many bodies inside that they started falling to the ground. I still remember the face of a little girl who fell out of the refrigerator after the door opened,” Ivan tells the story that he says he saw with his father.
The Tribuna newspaper team stayed in Serbia where it received this account and researched the story about the refrigerated trucks that transported hundreds of corpses of Albanian civilians to Serbia during the war.
Bora Smelter. According to the witness, the bodies of Albanians were burned in this place. Photo: Google Map
Threats to keep quiet and the father’s imprisonment
Since 2010, Ivan and his father have contacted the Special Prosecution for War Crimes operating in Belgrade. After several years of silence, they decided to be available to the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution to uncover the truth about what they saw, but according to Ivan, all they received from this prosecution was contempt.
“The threats started immediately. They threatened to blow me up personally. The threats came from the MUP commanders who are in Bor. Some still work in the MUP, others are retired but still powerful,” said Pajic. Since then, he says he has endured the threats. “The reason why I decided to speak out is because they need help. After this whole situation, we have had a lot of pressure, which came from people who were involved in these crimes, it is about Qasla Golubovic, who is now retired and roams freely in the town of Bor,” Ivani recounts.”
My father is a very honest man. While he is now in prison – they have arrested him. They did this in the most despicable way by framing him as allegedly preparing the murder of Zoran Milic, a police collaborator, while I can guarantee that he does not even know this person. I have also been called by the Serbian Ministry of Interior, but I do not trust them. I want the international authorities in Kosovo to take action quickly and do something about it,” said Ivan.
He asks every international justice authority to contact his father, since, as Ivan says, he is afraid that his father will disappear.”There were no Albanian soldiers in the refrigerator we are talking about, there were Albanian women and children killed there. I saw children with my own eyes when the doors of that refrigerator were opened. As is known, that refrigerator truck is quite large and was completely filled with human bodies and many of them fell to the ground when the doors were opened.
This happened in the foundry in Bor, where copper is melted. Everything was destroyed there, all the bodies were burned. They still guard this place but I can tell you that nothing has changed since 1999. I speak openly, those were major criminal acts, those people walk freely today, while my father is in prison”, Ivani recounts. In his testimony for the Tribuna newspaper, he also recounts the dilemmas he had about whether he should tell the story in Kosovo, Serbia or even in Sarajevo, a place he had considered more neutral.”
I talked to the man who works in the Hague Tribunal office in Belgrade, whose name is Dragan Jenić, and he is from my village Veliko Krivelja. He also works in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He begged me all the time not to meet with you. I have many calls from him. He is a very big fraud and I do not trust him,” says Pajić.
There are also buried
Ivan and his father Drago have not seen only one refrigerated truck. According to him, his father Drago spent the entire post-war period trying to uncover those implicated in these crimes, while he, as a young man, did another job. After the incident with the refrigerator at the Bor foundry, Ivan says that he followed every refrigerated truck that moved through his town during the war and discovered chilling evidence for eight of them.”
I was a motorcycle enthusiast and at that time I traveled to different places, especially in the mountains, like in the case of Petrovosello. I had heard that something was happening there and I went to see it. I followed eight trucks to this place. It could have been the same truck, but I saw it eight times. They were bringing civilian bodies there. Once, one of the trucks was carrying soldiers’ bodies. They are all buried there and I know exactly where that place is today.
I am convinced that if that place is opened, bodies will be found there. It is a very secret place in the mountains and we, the inhabitants of that area, call it a deserted place,” explains Ivan. He asks the international war crimes authorities to contact him so that he can take them to the deserted area in the mountains of Petrovosello.
“Once when a truck was brought, I was in a good position where I saw everything. I had a hat on my head and the soldiers at that time could not identify me. From there I left through the snow to Tuzla and returned again a year after the end of the war. They suspected that someone might have seen them at the moment they were transporting the bodies. As I said, I was on a motorbike and had a hat on and they could not verify me. Many internationals are saying that they have been and opened the place in Petrovo Selo, but I tell you that the place I am talking about has never been opened”, says Ivan Pajic.
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