#IFJBlog: Justice for missing journalists Slavuj and Perenić
Cenzolovka pre 3 sata | Jelena L. Petković
Can we commemorate the victims of crimes of the past, even as we turn a blind eye to the crimes against journalists of the present? This is the fundamental question. The answer will determine our future. On that hot and sticky August morning, the 21st of the month, 1998, Radio Priština journalists Đuro Slavuj from Dvor on the Una and Ranko Perenić from Lipljan went to the Sveti Vrači monastery in Zočište, in western Kosovo, to report on the return of kidnapped monks. They have been missing ever since.
Obeležavanje godišnjice nestanka Đura Salaja i Ranka Perenića (foto: UNS / J. Marković) It was a time of war, and the news spread like an eerie foreboding among all the journalists in the field. What was a terrible apprehension almost three decades ago, or precisely 27 years ago, is now an unproven fact. As soon as Milivoje Mihajlović found out what happened, then the editor of Radio Priština and the head of the Media Center, he launched a search to find them. At
