117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 45 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Whereas brothers Ylli, Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi were citi-
zens of the United States, born in Chicago, Illinois, to 
ethnic Albanian parents from what is today the Republic 
of Kosovo, and who subsequently lived in Hampton Bays, 
New York; 
Whereas the three Bytyqi brothers responded to the brutality 
of 
the 
conflict 
associated 
with 
Kosovo’s
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separation from the Republic of Serbia and the Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia of which Serbia was a constituent 
republic by joining the so-called ‘‘Atlantic Brigade’’ of 
the Kosovo Liberation Army in April 1999; 
Whereas a Military-Technical Agreement between the Govern-
ment of Yugoslavia and the North Atlantic Council came 
into effect on June 10, 1999, leading to a cessation of 
hostilities; 
Whereas the Bytyqi brothers were arrested on June 23, 
1999, by Serbian police within the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia when the brothers accidently crossed what 
was then an unmarked administrative border while es-
corting an ethnic Romani family who had been neighbors 
to safety outside Kosovo; 
Whereas the Bytyqi brothers were jailed for 15 days for ille-
gal entry into the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 
Prokuplje, Serbia, until a judge ordered their release on 
July 8, 1999; 
Whereas, instead of being released, the Bytyqi brothers were 
taken by a special operations unit of the Serbian Ministry 
of Internal Affairs to a training facility near Petrovo 
Selo, Serbia, where all three were executed; 
Whereas, at the time of their murders, Ylli was 25, Agron 
was 23, and Mehmet was 21 years of age; 
Whereas Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was removed 
from office on October 5, 2000, following massive dem-
onstrations protesting his refusal to acknowledge and ac-
cept election results the month before; 
Whereas, in the following years, the political leadership of 
Serbia has worked to strengthen democratic institutions, 
to develop stronger adherence to the rule of law, and to
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ensure respect for human rights and fundamental free-
doms, including as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 
evolved into a State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 
February 2003, which itself dissolved when both repub-
lics proclaimed their respective independence in June 
2006; 
Whereas the United States Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, was 
informed on July 17, 2001, that the bodies of Ylli, 
Agron, and Mehmet Bytyqi were found with their hands 
bound and gunshot wounds to the back of their heads, 
buried atop an earlier mass grave of approximately 70 
bodies of murdered civilians from Kosovo; 
Whereas Serbian authorities subsequently investigated but 
never charged those individuals who were part of the 
Ministry of Internal Affairs chain of command related to 
this crime, including former Minister of Internal Affairs 
Vlajko Stojilkovic, Assistant Minister and Chief of the 
Public Security Department Vlastimir Djordjevic, and 
special operations training camp commander Goran 
‘‘Guri’’ Radosavljevic; 
Whereas Vlajko Stojilkovic died of a self-inflicted gunshot 
wound in April 2002 prior to being transferred to the 
custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the 
former Yugoslavia where he had been charged with 
crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or 
customs of war during the Kosovo conflict; 
Whereas Vlastimir Djordjevic was arrested and transferred to 
the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for 
the former Yugoslavia in June 2007, and sentenced in 
February 2011 to 27 years imprisonment (later reduced 
to 18 years) for crimes against humanity and violations