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This concurrent resolution expresses Congress's sense that the Serbian government should prosecute those responsible for the July 1999 deaths of three U.S. citizens—brothers Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi—who were executed by Serbian special forces. The brothers, born in Chicago and living in New York, had joined Kosovo's independence forces and were arrested after accidentally crossing into Serbia while helping a Romani family escape; despite a judge ordering their release after 15 days in detention, they were instead taken to a training facility and executed with gunshot wounds to the back of their heads. The resolution calls on Serbia to prioritize investigating and prosecuting those responsible, with the U.S. providing resources to monitor these efforts, while making progress on the case a significant factor in U.S.-Serbia relations. Despite investigations over two decades, no one has been convicted for the murders, though some individuals have faced international charges for other Kosovo-related crimes, and one suspect currently works as a security director in Belgrade.

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