Kosovo: UN envoy announces cash reward for leads to Serb family’s murderers

The top United Nations official in Kosovo today announced a €50,000 (euro) reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the murder of three members of a Serb family in Obilic.

“Anyone with information is encouraged to call an untraceable international telephone number to be released shortly by the police,” Michael Steiner, chief of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), said.

The telephone would be manned “24 hours a day,” Mr. Steiner said, who reassured any prospective callers that their identities would be held in strict confidence.

The killing yesterday of three members of the Stolic family was a “heinous crime” directed against the efforts to create a multi-ethnic Kosovo, Mr. Steiner stated after rushing that same day to Obilic, a few kilometres outside Kosovo’s capital of Pristina.