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23. 04. 2015

Flowers laid at memorial to 16 RTS employees killed in 1999

23.4.2015. (Tanjug) - BELGRADE - The sixteenth anniversary of deaths of 16 Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) employees in the 1999 NATO bombing was commemorated Thursday by families and colleagues of those killed and the laying of wreaths at the memorial erected on the destroyed part of the national broadcaster's building in the center of Belgrade.

A wreath bearing the inscription "Why?" was laid at the memorial by Serbian Minister of Culture Ivan Tasovac.

Miroslav Medic, brother of victim Sinisa Medic, said that the families of the dead were still seeking justice for the victims.

Zarko Trebjesanin, member of the RTS managing board, said that it was difficult to speak calmly at the site of a great crime, of a "cold-blooded killing of 16 people, RTS media workers, just because they were doing their job in a professional manner."

Only the then RTS director, Dragoljub Milanovic, has been convicted in connection with the war crime so far. He was given and has worked out a 10-year prison sentence for failing to take measures to protect the RTS employees and evacuate them after receiving threats that the building would be bombed.