'Code of silence': Unsolved Kosovo killings haunt victims' relatives

Vllaznim Pergjegjaj

Vllaznim Pergjegjaj speks in the town of Peja on February 9, 2023. After masterminding war crimes in Kosovo, Serbian special force unit rounded up ethnic Albanians including Pergjegjaj who was beaten with "all possible tools from wood to metal" while being interrogated.  PHOTO | ARMEND NIMANI | AFP

Nearly 25 years after her brother's murder, Aleksandra Sibinovic remains tormented by unanswered questions about the killing which helped precipitate the Kosovo war still plaguing the Balkans to this day. 

Six Serbs mostly teenagers, were killed in broad daylight when masked gunmen stormed a cafe in the quiet town of Peja in Southwest Kosovo in December 1998.