Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Albania Renews Search for Missing Students
Tirana | 23 October 2009 | Besar Likmeta
Lenka Tuckova, missing since 2001
The General Directorate of police said in a press statement that a $100,000 (66,666 euros) reward for information on the case, first offered two years ago, was still valid.
The three students, Jan Pavelka, Michal Pavelka and Lenka Tuckova, then in their early twenties, disappeared without a trace while hiking in the remote Dukagjini region, close to the border with Montenegro and Kosovo.
Albania's state police launched a massive search operation at the time, but found no trace of the trio.
| Michal Pavleka |
A nine-member rescue team, made up of friends of the three students, also searched the area in August 2001, without success. They also launched a website and distributed fliers in order to raise public awareness of the case.
In 2008, after an anonymous tip claimed that the three students were buried in a cave close to the village of Theth, police special forces scoured the surrounding area but again came up empty-handed.
The 2002 murder of Mira Carku - a teacher from the village who hosted the students - by her cousin Mican Carku, led Albanian investigators to suspect that he may have been responsible for their disappearance.
The trio had stayed at Mira Carku's house for several days before they headed for the nearby mountains.
However, because of the lack of any material evidence, Mican Carku was never charged over the disappearance of the students. He is currently serving a 15-year sentence for the murder of his cousin.
