Serb Association of Texas expresses its strongest opposition to the H. Con. Res. 26, sponsored by Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Tx) and urges Members of Congress to vote against it.
The resolution, currently referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calls “for the end of impunity of unpunished Serbian sexual war crimes during the 1999 Kosovo war in the case of United States citizen and sexual war crime survivor Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman and other survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.”
While we condemn all war crimes against civilians and empathize with true victims, it is evident that this proposal does not call for justice, but aims to demonize the Serbian people, to offend Serb-American communities across the country and to deepen the divide among ethnic groups descending from Southeast Europe by recklessly and self-servingly falsifying premises and creating false narratives. It puts forth accusations already rejected in courts of law, repeats dangerous and baseless claims about events from quarter a century ago and even preposterously demands that the U.S. government uses the alleged sexual crimes of the Serbian police during the Kosovo war of 1999 as leverage in its current relations with the Republic of Serbia.
Namely, Mrs. Krasniqi-Goodman is an ethnic Albanian who has claimed for 26 years that she was raped by Serbian policemen during the Kosovo war of 1999. However, her two alleged attackers were tried and exonerated in 2014 by the Supreme Court of Kosovo.
Let us emphasize this: it was not a Serbian court that freed them, but the highest court in Kosovo, an Albanian-dominated NATO protectorate founded as a result of the war against Serbia and the Serbs.
Mrs. Krasniqi-Goodman, an American citizen and a Kosovo Member of Parliament, has since tried to relaunch the case before Kosovo courts, but no legal standing was found to do so. Finally, she found allies willing to make her charges a legislative priority of the U.S. Congress and spend taxpayers money on it.
What adds to the offense is the fact that the true and evidenced suffering of Serbian Orthodox Christians at the hands of Kosovo Albanian Muslims has been completely ignored, while even allegations, rumors and fabrications purporting to the Albanian victimhood have been magnified and perfidiously elevated to axiomatic facts.
Among the fabrications, the wild claim that 20,000 women, Albanian by implication, were raped by Serbs during the three-month-long conflict in 1999 found its way into this resolution. This claim has never been even remotely proven true and it serves no purpose other than to further vilify the Serbian nation. The resolution cites the Center for Disease Control as the source of this claim, but Amnesty International could not confirm that the report in which this claim was supposedly made ever existed.
For the sake of truth and justice, we appeal to every just American and to every conscientious Member of Congress to reject the proposed resolution.
We also invite all Serb-Americans and their friends to reach out to their Congressional representatives and ask them to help stop this proposal.
Serb Association of Texas
8102 Fry Rd, Ste A #1018
Cypress, TX 77433
Email: info@serbstx.org
Serb Association of Texas expresses its strongest opposition to the H. Con. Res. 26, sponsored by Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Tx) and urges Members of Congress to vote against it. Also, our newspaper Sloboda.Liberty and SND Council of America endorse this appeal of Serbs in Texas, and urge its members to take this note to their US Congress representatives.
