HRH CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER'S URGENT STATEMENT ON TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST SERBIAN CHILDREN IN GORAZDEVAC

Belgrade, August 13^th 2003. – HRH Crown Prince Alexander II is horrified by the murder of two and wounding of six Serbian children that were shot at from the nearby Albanian village in Gorazdevac in Metohija.

HRH Crown Prince and the complete Royal family express their condolences to families of the killed and wounded children with a message that they participate, with all the heart, in their great sorrow.

Murder and wounding of children is the worst possible news and in this context, the victims of this crime are not only innocent children, but also all of us, as well as the State.

NRH Crown Prince expresses hope that the ones who committed this crime will be brought to justice and punished proportionally to the filth of their acts.  Crown Prince appeals to representatives of the international community in Kosovo and Metohija, whose achievements should be measured by absence of such crimes, to accept their responsibilities more seriously then they have accepted before.

HRH Crown Prince Alexander II fully supports all the Government’s attempts to prevent that situation of unpunished, chauvinist crimes against remaining Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija does not become norm and the political standard there.