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The War crimes in the Kosovo War were a series of war crimes committed during the Kosovo War (beginning 1998 - June 11, 1999). Yugoslav security forces killed many Albanian civilians during the war. According to Human Rights Watch, most of the violations from January 1998 to April 1999 were caused by the Serbian Police or the Yugoslav Army. Violations also include violations committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army, such as kidnapping and execution of other minority races and Serbian-friendly Albanians.


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In the 1980s, Kosovo Albanians constituted a majority in Kosovo. During the 1970s and 1980s, thousands of Serbs and Montenegrins left Kosovo, largely due to the economic situation and oppression by the Kosovo government and Kosovo population. "57,000 Serbs have left Kosovo in the last decade" - writes the New York Times in 1982. Slobodan Milo? Evi? gain political power by pledging to stop this oppression.

Milo? Evi? abolished the autonomy of Kosovo in 1989. With the rise of power, the Albanians began to boycott the state institutions and ignore the laws of the Republic of Serbia, culminating in the creation of the Republic of Kosovo which received recognition from neighboring Albania. Serbia (now joined by Montenegro as FR Yugoslavia) tried to maintain its political control over the province. With the formation of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a large number of Kosovo Albanians became radicalized. Serbian police and Yugoslav forces were brutal. In 1997, international sanctions were applied to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia because of the persecution of the Kosovan Albanians by the Yugoslav security forces.

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Yugoslav war crimes

The Serbian military, paramilitary forces and police in Kosovo have committed various war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international humanitarian and human rights law: the forced expulsion of Kosovans from their homes; burning and looting of houses, schools, places of worship and health facilities; detention, especially military age men; summary execution; rape; violation of medical neutrality; and identity cleansing.

Ethnic persecution and cleansing

During the armed conflict in 1998, the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police used excessive and random powers, resulting in property damage, population displacement and civilian deaths. Some claim that Belgrade abandoned Operation Horseshoe in the summer of 1998, in which hundreds of thousands of Albanians were expelled from their homes.

Organization Withdrawal for Security and Cooperation at European monitors on March 20, 1999, together with the start of the NATO bombing campaign, pushing Milo? Evi? to implement an "expulsion campaign". With the start of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Operation Horseshoe was implemented, although the Yugoslav government maintained that the refugee crisis was caused by the bombing. The Yugoslavian army, Serbian police and Serb paramilitary forces in the spring of 1999, in an organized manner, began a widespread campaign of violence against Albanian civilians to expel them from Kosovo and thus retain Belgrade's political control over the province.

According to the legally binding ruling of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Federal Army and Serbian police systematically attacked Albanian villages after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia which began on 24 March 1999; abusing, robbing and killing civilians, ordering them to go to Albania or Montenegro, and burning their homes and destroying their property. Nemanja Stjepanovi? claimed that in the campaign of violence, Kosovo Albanians were expelled from their homes, murdered, sexually harassed, and their religious buildings were destroyed. Yugoslav forces committed many war crimes during the implementation of a "joint criminal enterprise" whose purpose was to "through the use of force and terror, force a large number of Kosovo Albanians to leave their homes and cross the border in order for the state government to maintain control over Kosovo." Ethnic cleansing of Albanian citizens was carried out in the following manner: first The army surrounded the location, followed by the shooting, then the police entered the village and often with them and the Army, and then the crime occurred (murder, rape, beatings, expulsion...).

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in June 1999, the Yugoslav army, Serbian and paramilitary police expelled some 850,000 Albanians from Kosovo, and several hundred thousand internally displaced, as well as those who fled before March. Around 440,000 refugees crossed the border into Albania and 320,000 fled to Macedonia, while Bosnia and Herzegovina received more than 30,000.

Chief Justice Iain Bonomy, who handed down the sentence, said that "the deliberate actions of these troops during the campaign provoked the departure of at least 700,000 ethnic Albanians from Kosovo in a brief period from late March to early June 1999."

Destruction of settlements

HRW claims that the Yugoslav Army indiscriminately attacked the Albanian Albanian villages. Police and military forces have destroyed thousands of Albanian villages in Kosovo by burning or destroying them. According to a UNHCR survey, nearly 40% of all homes in Kosovo were heavily damaged or completely destroyed by the end of the war. Out of a total of 237,842 homes, 45,768 were heavily damaged and 46,414 were destroyed. Specifically, where to stay in Pe town? severely damaged. More than 80% of 5,280 homes in the city were heavily damaged (1,590) or destroyed (2,774).

Destruction of mosques, monuments and other traditional architecture

Many Kosovo cultural sites in Kosovo were destroyed during the Kosovo conflict (1998-1999) which was a war crime violating the Hague and Geneva Conventions. Religious objects are also damaged or destroyed. Of the 498 mosques in Kosovo used actively, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) documented that 225 mosques were damaged or destroyed by Serbian Yugoslav troops. Overall, the eighteen months of the Yugoslav counter-insurgency campaign between 1998-1999 in Kosovo resulted in 225 or one-third of a total of 600 mosques that were damaged, destroyed or destroyed along with other Islamic architecture during the conflict. In addition, 500 houses belonging to the Albanian people (traditional stone tower houses) and three of the four well-preserved Ottoman town centers located in the Kosovo towns were severely damaged resulting in the loss of traditional architecture. The Kosovo public library, in particular 65 out of 183, was completely destroyed by the loss of 900,588 volumes, while the Islamic library suffered damage or destruction resulting in the loss of rare books, manuscripts and other literary collections. The archives belonging to the Kosovo Islamic Community with records covering 500 years were also destroyed. During the war, the inherited Islamic architecture proposed for the Serbian paramilitary and military forces of Yugoslavia as an Albanian heritage with the destruction of the non-Serbian architectural heritage became a methodical and well-planned component of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

Cleansing identity

Cleansing identity was a strategy used by the Yugoslav government during the Kosovo War. Clearance of identity is defined as "confiscation of personal identification, passport, and other such documents to make it difficult or impossible for those who are expelled to return".

Expelled Kosovo Albanians claim that they are systematically stripped of identity and property documents including passports, land certificates, license plates, identity cards and other documents. In relation to the policy of expelling ethnic Albanians from the province, Yugoslavia will seize all documents indicating the identity of those expelled. Doctors for Human Rights report that nearly 60% of survey respondents observed Yugoslav forces move or destroy personal identification documents. Human Rights Watch also documented the common practice of "identity cleansing": refugees who were expelled to Albania were often stripped of their identity documents and forced to lift license plates from their vehicles. The occurrence of these actions indicates that the government is trying to hinder their return.

In addition to seizing relevant documents from the holders, efforts are also made to destroy any actual birth records (and other archives) run by government agencies, thus making a complete "cleanup" (this latter tactic is sometimes referred to as archive cleaning).

Massacre of civilians

  • The Ra Massacre? ak (or "Operasi Ra'ab") on January 15, 1999 - 45 Albanians were arrested and killed by Serbian special forces. The first forensic report, by a joint team of Yugoslavia and Belarus, concluded that those killed were not civilians. The massacre triggered a shift in Western policy toward war.
  • Suva Reka massacre on 26 March 1999 - 48 Albanian civilians were killed, among them many children.
  • The Podujevo massacre - 19 Albanian civilians were killed, including women, children and the elderly.
  • Massacre at Velika Crew? a - According to ICTY, the Serb Anti-Terrorist Special Unit kills 42 people. There are also allegations of mass rapes.
  • The Izbica Massacre - Serb forces killed about 93 Albanian civilians.
  • The Drenica massacre - there are 29 bodies found in mass graves, perpetrated by Serbian law enforcement.
  • Gornje Obrinje massacre - 18 bodies were found, but more people were slaughtered.
  • ? u? ka massacre - 41 known victims.
  • The massacre of Bela Crkva - 62 known casualties
  • The massacre table - at least 300 people were killed by Serbian police and paramilitary forces in May 1999.
  • Orahovac Massacre - Estimates range from 50 to more than 200 ethnic Albanians killed
  • Dubrava Prison Massacre - Prison guards killed more than 70 Albanian prisoners in Dubrava Prison.
  • Poklek massacre - April 17, 1999 - at least 47 people were forced into a room and systematically shot dead. The exact number of dead people is unknown, although it is certain that 23 children under the age of fifteen were killed in the massacre.
  • Vu? itrn massacre - More than 100 Kosovo refugees were killed by Serbian Police.

Cover

As soon as NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milo? Evi? ordered that all bodies in Kosovo that might appeal to the Hague Court should be removed. The Yugoslav Army systematically transported the bodies of the Albanians to places like Trep-Tambang near Kosovska Mitrovica, where their remains were suspected of being cremated. So, according to one source, it is estimated that between 1,200 and 1,500 corpses were burned on Trep? A Mines. However, these allegations are around the Trep? A mine was wrong. More Kosovo Kosovo bodies were being transported to Serbia, where corpses were buried in mass graves like in Batajnica.

In May 2001, the Serbian government announced that 86 Kosovo Kosovo bodies were thrown into the Danube River during the Kosovo War. After four months of digging, Serbian forensic experts found at least seven mass graves and about 430 bodies (including female and child corpses) in Central Serbia. These sites include graves in Batajnica near Belgrade, in Petrovo Selo in eastern Serbia and near Peru, Dam in western Serbia. So far, about 800 remains of Albanians killed and buried in mass graves in Serbia have been dug and returned to their families in Kosovo. Most of the bodies were found near the Special Anti-Terrorist police station where Serb Anti-Terrorism units were stationed and trained in covert operations.

As a witness in the trial of eight police officers for war crimes against Albanian civilians during the Suva Reka massacre, Dragan Karleu? A, the Serbian Interior Ministry's investigator, testified that there were more graves in Serbia.

He commented, "why did they remove bodies this way if people had died normally," and concluded that they did not die normally and that the campaign to remove the bodies was, in fact, a cover for "terrible crimes ".

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Albanian Kosovo war crimes

Recording and summary execution

In some villages under Albanian control in 1998, militants expelled ethnic-Serbs from their homes. Some of those who remain unknown and allegedly kidnapped by the KLA and killed. The KLA held about 85 Serbians during 19 July 1998 attacking Orahovac. 35 of these are then released but others remain. On July 22, 1998, the KLA briefly took over the Bela'evac mine near the town of Obili. Nine Serbian miners were arrested that day and they remain on the International Committee's Red Cross list missing and alleged to have been killed. In August 1998, 22 Serbian civilians were reported killed in the village of Kleà ¢ ka, where police claimed to have found human remains and a kiln used to cremate the corpses. In September 1998, Serb police collected 34 bodies of people believed to have been captured and killed by the KLA, among them some ethnic Albanians, on Lake Radonji? near Glo? ane (Gllogjan) in a place known as Lake Radonji? massacre.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross and ICTY, 97 Serb Kosovo were abducted in 1998. According to a Serbian government report, from January 1, 1998 to June 10, 1999, UÃÆ'â € K K killed 988 people and abducted 287; of those killed, 335 were civilians, 351 soldiers, 230 police and 72 were unknown; according to nationality, 87 civilians killed were Serbs, 230 Albanians, and 18 from other countries.

Massacre of civilians

List of incomplete slaughters:

  • Radonji Lake? massacre - 34 ethnic Serbs, Romans, and Albanians were found by Serbian forensic teams near the lake.
  • Gnjilane massacre in 1999 - Remnants of 80 Serbs were found in mass graves after they were killed by Albanian militants.
  • The Orahovac massacre - More than 100 Serbian and Roman civilians were abducted and stationed in concentration camps, 47 were killed.
  • Starra Gra Massacre? co-14 Serbian farmers were killed by Albanian militants.
  • the killing - Kla - ka - 22 Serbian civilians were killed and their corpses cremated.
  • The massacre in Ugljare - 15 Serbs killed by Albanian separatists.
  • Pe? massacres - 20 Serbs were killed and their bodies dumped into the well.
  • Volujak massacre - 25 Kosovo Serb civilians killed by KLA members in July 1998.
  • The massacre of Albanian leaders - 5 Albanian leaders killed after they attended the funeral of an Albanian lawyer.

Ethnic cleansing

During the Kosovo War, more than 90,000 other Serb and non-Albanian refugees escaped from war-torn provinces. In the days after the Yugoslav Army resigned, more than 200,000 (more than half) Serbs and other non-Albanian civilians were expelled from Kosovo and many of the remaining civilians became victims of abuse. After Kosovo and the other Yugoslav Wars, Serbia is home to a large number of IDPs (including Kosovo) in Europe.

In 2000, German war photographer Frauke Eigen made an exhibition about clothing and articles from victims of ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo War. Eigen photographs were taken in place during the excavation of mass graves, and were later used as evidence by the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.

According to a 2001 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW):

The KLA is responsible for serious offenses... including the kidnapping and killing of Serbs and ethnic Albanians who are considered collaborators with the state. KLA elements are also responsible for post-conflict attacks against other Serbs, Romans, and non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanian political rivals... the widespread and systematic burning and looting of Serbian, Roman and other minority homes. and the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries... combined with harassment and intimidation designed to force people from their homes and communities... the elements of the KLA are clearly responsible for many of these crimes.

In 2007, tens of thousands of Serbs were preparing to flee Kosovo province, packing up their belongings, fearing a new wave of "ethnic cleansing" in the hands of the Kosovo-led new Kosovo-led administration.

Use of child soldiers

About 10% of all KLA rebels involved in the fighting during the conflict are under the age of 18, with some as young as 13. The majority of them are 16 and 17 years old. About 2% are under the age of 16. These are mainly girls who are recruited to cook for the soldiers rather than actually fighting.

Concentration camp

Some concentration camps in Kosovo are:

  • Lapu nik prison - A KLA concentration camp in Glogovac where 23 moderate Serbs and Albanians are killed. Hardina Bala; A UAE prison guard was found guilty of torture, mistreatment of prisoners and murder for crimes committed in the camp.
  • Camp Jablanica Prison - 10 people were detained and tortured by KLA forces including: one Serb, three Montenegro, one Bosnian, three Albanians, and two unknown ethnic victims.
  • Concentration camps in Albania - Many non-Albanians and Albanians working with Yugoslavia were abducted by Albanian militants and taken across the border into Albania where they were detained, interrogated, tortured and in many cases killed. Several investigations into these camps have produced evidence detailing that some prisoners have been taken away by their organs.

Organ Theft

  • During and after the 1999 war, allegations were made to kill people for organs to be sold for sale on the black market. Various sources estimate that the number of victims ranged from "a handful" to 50, between 24 and 100 to over 300. The victims were believed to be Serbs, murdered by the perpetrators with strong links with the Kosovo Liberation Army (UAE). â € ¡K) in 1999. Claims were investigated first by the ICTY who invented medical equipment and traces of blood in and around the home. They were later investigated by the United Nations, which received witness accounts from many former British fighters who claimed that some of the detainees had taken their organs. Chief Prosecutor for ICTY; Carla Del Ponte exposes this crime to the public in his book; Madame Prosecutor in 2008, caused a great response. In 2011; French media outlets; France24 released a UN secret document written in 2003 that documented the crime.
  • In 2010, a report by Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty to the European Council (CoE) found "credible and convergent indications" of the illegal trafficking of human organs that occurred for more than a decade, including the death of "a handful" of Serbian prisoners murdered for this purpose. On January 25, 2011, the report was supported by CoE, which called for a full and serious investigation. Since the publication of the report, however, senior sources in the EU Union Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and many members of the European Parliament have expressed serious doubts about its reports and foundations, believing that Marty failed to provide "any evidence" "about the allegations. EULEX special investigation was launched in August 2011.
  • In response to this allegation, the head of the Eulex war crimes unit (European Mission and Justice Mission in Kosovo), Matti Raatikainen, claims "The fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever in this case, no bodies.No witnesses. the media on this issue has not helped us yet, they have not helped anyone yet. "He described these accusations as" disturbances "that prevented war crimes units from finding the remains of nearly 2,000 ethnic Serbs, Albanians and Romans who are still missing in conflict.

Destroying medieval churches and monuments

In total, 155 Serbian Orthodox churches and temples were destroyed between 11 June 1999 and 19 March 2004, following the end of the Kosovo War and included the 2004 riots in Kosovo. KLA fighters accused of damaging Devi? monastery and terrorizing staff. The KFOR army said that KLA rebels ruined centuries-old paintings and paintings in the chapel and stole two cars and all the monasteries. Many other churches were targeted by attacks by Albanian militants, such as:

  • St. Elijah, Podujevo
  • St. George, Re? ani
  • St. Paraskeva
  • Church of the Holy Emperor Uro?
  • Holy Charcoal Monastery
  • Convent of the Holy Trinity
  • The Church of St. John the Baptist, Samodre? a
  • Holy Trinity Church, Petri?
  • Virgin Church, Naklo
  • St. John the Baptist, Pe? ka Banja
  • St. Nicholas, Donje Nerodimlje
  • Holy Trinity Church, Velika Reka
  • Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Suva Reka
  • Church of the Holy Mother of God, Podgorce
  • St. Nicholas ,? urakovac
  • St. Basil of Ostrog, Ljubovo
  • Church of the Holy Apostles, Petrovac
  • The Virgin Presentation, Dolac

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The leading serial killings of ethnic Albanian leaders and intellectuals have also been reported (including Bajram Kelmendi).

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NATO

Civilian casualties

The Serbian government and a number of international human rights groups (eg, Amnesty International) claim that NATO has committed war crimes by bombing civilians. According to Human Rights Watch, between 489 and 528 civilians were killed by NATO airstrikes. According to Serbian sources, the number of civilian casualties caused by the NATO bombings reached 2,500.

List of incomplete civilian casualties caused by NATO:

  • Grdelica train bombing
  • NATO bombing of near Albanian refugees? akovica
  • Kori? bombing
  • NATO bombing of the Serbian Radio Television Office
  • Lu? ane bus bombing
  • Ni cluster bombing? (The cluster bomb was illegal in 2008, but legal in 1999.)
  • US bombing of the Chinese People's Embassy in Belgrade

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Aftermath

Refugees

It is estimated that 200,000 Serbs and Romans fled from Kosovo after the war. The Romans were also expelled after being abused by the Albanians. The Yugoslav Red Cross stationed 247,391 Serbian refugees in November 1999.

Murder

According to a 2001 Human Rights Watch report, "as many as a thousand Serbians and Roma have been killed or disappeared since June 12, 1999."

According to a Serbian government report, in the period from June 10, 1999 to November 11, 2001, when NATO had control in Kosovo, 847 people were reported to have been killed and 1,154 kidnapped. It consists of civilian personnel and security forces.

Organ Theft

Carla Del Ponte, an ICTY chief prosecutor has long claimed in his book The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals that there were examples of organ trafficking in 1999. According to this book after the end of the war in 1999, Albanian Kosovo smuggled organs between 100 and 300 Serbs and other minorities from the province to Albania. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslav and Serb War Crimes Tribunals is currently investigating these allegations, as many new witnesses and materials have recently emerged.

In response to these allegations, the head of the Eulex war crimes unit (Matri Raatikainen's European Commission for Law and Justice), claimed "The fact is that there is no evidence whatsoever in this case, no body No witnesses All reports and media attention to the issue this has not helped us yet, and they have not helped anyone yet. "He described these accusations as" disturbances "that prevented war crimes units from finding the remains of nearly 2,000 ethnic Serbs, Albanians and Romans still missing in the conflict.

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War crimes tribunal

Criminal prosecution of Serbian leader before ICTY

Slobodan Milo? Evi ?, along with Milan Milutinovi ?, Nikola? Ainovi ?, Dragoljub Ojdani? and Vlajko Stojiljkovi? was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with crimes against humanity including murder, involuntary resettlement, deportation and "political, racial or religious persecution". The indictment was further leveled in October 2003 against former chief of staff of the Neboj armed forces? A Pavkovi?, Former commander of the army corps Vladimir Lazarevi ?, former police officer Vlastimir? Or? Evi? and the current head of public security of Serbia, Sreten Luki ?. All are charged for crimes against humanity and violation of law or customs of war. Milosevic died in ICTY detention before being sentenced.

The court has announced the following verdict:

  • Milan Milutinovi?, former President of the Republic of Serbia and Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia, was released.
  • Nikola? ainovi?, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, guilty of all charges, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
  • Dragoljub Ojdani ?, Chief of General Staff of VJ, guilty of two charges, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  • Neboj? a Pavkovi ?, the Third Army commander, guilty of all charges, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
  • Vladimir Lazarevi?, Pristina Corps commander VJ, guilty of two charges, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  • Sreten Luki ?, Serbian Police Chief of Staff, guilty of all charges, was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
  • Vlastimir? or? Evi ?, Head of the Ministry of Public Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, is guilty of five counts, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

? ainovi ?, Pavkovi? and Luki? are punished as members of a joint criminal enterprise, while others are punished for helping and abetting crimes.

Domestic Trial

First case

First trial in Serbia & amp; The FRY on atrocities against Kosovo Albanians had taken place in 2000 in military tribunals, as records of murder. The Ni? The Military Court at the end of 2000 was found guilty of the murder of two Albanians on March 28, 1999 in the village of Gornja Su ica near Priina: Captain Dragi? Petrovi? and the reserve army sergeant Nenad Stamenkovi? and Tomica Jovi ?. Petrovi? got 4 years and 10 months, while Stamenkovi? and Jovi? each sentenced to four and a half years. The court had been dragged because the Supreme Military Tribunal had abolished the verdict and issued a retrial, until it was completed in late 2003 before the three defendants were found guilty of the same crime, but their sentence increased - 9 years for Petrovic and 7 for Stamenkovic and Jovic respectively - guilty of "war crimes".

However, the first domestic crime of "crime war" (under the classification) in FRY on Kosovo occurred in 1999-02, against a Yugoslavian soldier named Ivan Nikoli ?, was indicted for killing two ethnic Albanians in a village near the Kosovo city of Podujevo called Full on 24 March 1999. Initially they were accused of murder, and became the first trial of the atrocities committed against the Albanians. It was paved with a lot of controversy. Nikolic was initially exonerated from all charges, but in June 2000, the Supreme Court of Serbia had abolished the verdict and ordered a retrial. Instead of murder, the indictment was changed by a prosecution court for "war crimes against civilians" (according to Article 142 of the Criminal Code), paving the way for prosecution of war crimes against ethnic Albanians in Serbia and Yugoslavia.. The trial, held before the District Court in Prokuplje, finally ended in a conviction in 2002, Nikolic was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Orahovac Case

One of the better known cases is Boban Petkovi? and? or? e Simi ?, due to the controversial stalling, both of which are reserves of Serbian police; Petkovi? is a murder suspect of 3 Albanians in the village of Rija near Orahovac and Simi? as an accomplice. Although the investigation opened in June 1999 at the Prizren District Court, the withdrawal of the UNMIK-supported Serbian court has been opened at the Po District Court? Arevac at the end of '99. Judgment issued in mid-2000 and Petkovi? found guilty on two counts of murder and sentenced to 4 years and 10 months in prison, while Simi? for 1 year as an accomplice. The Supreme Court of Serbia abolished the verdict in 2001 and ordered a retrial. In a new trial, where according to the new procedure, individuals are charged with "war crimes", the Pozarevac District Court has sentenced Petkovic to 5 years in prison with the help of mandatory psychiatry, while releasing Simic from all charges. The Supreme Court has considered both the Defense and Prosecution again to abolish the verdict in 2006. The judicial reform and new organization of the Serbian judicial system have caught the case, so it finally began in 2008, under the High Court of Po? Arevac. However, due to severe procedural difficulties, demanding cooperation with EULEX for evidence from the field, as well as lack of appearances in front of the court, the trial has reached a dead end in 2011 and 2012. In March 2013, Petkovi? It was found guilty by the Po'vvac High Court for committing war crimes against civilians and sentenced to five years. The current process is in 2014 at its comparable stadium.

War Crimes System

In dedication to the enormous problem of the war crimes committed in the 1990s and due to their sensitive nature, Serbia has established a special "War Crimes War" dedicated to investigating and prosecuting war crimes, and having a special War Crimes division within the system court with special panel. This is the only country in Former Yugoslavia that has done so, all others demanding war crimes under normal judicial procedures.

Suva Reka

Among the more prominent results are the "Suva Reka Case" (Suva Reka massacre), the trial began in 2006. Ex police Milorad Ni? Avi? and Sla? an? ukari? and member of State security Miroslav Petkovi? was found guilty by the Panel of War Crimes at the Belgrade High Court for the killing of 49 or 50 Albanian civilians in Suva Reka on 26 March 1999, including a total of 48 members of the Berisha family. Ni? Avi? got 13, Petkovi? 15 and? Ukari? 20 years in prison. Three other policemen were released, while in a separate hearing, police commander Suva Reka, Radojko Repanovi? found guilty of command responsibility and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Two other policemen were released, as well as a third, against whom the prosecutor had dropped the case of the middle of the trial. In 2010 the Belgrade Appeal Court has confirmed all decisions against 6 directly responsible defendants, but has rejected the Repanovic verdict and ordered a retrial. One released, commander of the 37th Poloslav Mitrovi Police Unit, is still in detention in 2013 along with several other suspected members for another report on war crimes. Repanovi? were found guilty of the same amount and sentenced to 20 years in prison by the end of 2010 by the Panel of War Crimes in Belgrade and in 2011 the Belgrade Appeal Court has confirmed the verdict.

More war crimes findings against civilians

Legitimate authorities in Serbia do not deny allegations of war crimes, published by Slobodan Stojanovic, the retired Serb Police commander, who is a witness protected by the Serbian state.

During 1998, as a member of the Serbian Police, he has taken part in a series of actions he has made against Albanian civilians throughout Kosovo.

While on Radio Free Europe, he said that the Serbian High Officer was informed of every action taken by members of the Serb Forces in Kosovo region, through a chain of command called "territorial liberation".

He said that he had seen quite a lot of horror, done by Serbian troops, which affected his resignation from Serbian Police.

He explained one of the occasions he thought was routine.

"I have been everywhere and when I see what happens, I withdraw, simply for no reason whatsoever, they will approach people and threaten them, by demanding money from them.If someone is short of money, they will kill they, for no other reason, "he said, explaining that he knew the names of people who had killed innocent people just by saying" Good Albanians are good only as dead Albanians. "

He accused his former commander Nenad Stojkovic of burning down villages in Mitrovica and the crimes committed there.

"Nenad Stojkovic is responsible for what we have done in Mitrovica, they set fire to the whole village, that is what they will do.They will take orders and that's it, a few short words.When they take the" game "it means' burning the whole village 'whereas when they take the' tire 'order it kills people.When the Mitrovic commander used to say' bring him for tanning ', this means that Albanian men should be killed, "Stojanovic said.

He also talks about another case, which he thinks is a crime, which, however, nobody claims to be responsible.

Charges to KLA leaders

The ICTY also leveled charges against KLA Fatmir Limaj members, Haradin Bala, Isak Musliu and Agim Murtezi, who were indicted for crimes against humanity. They were arrested on 17-18 February 2003. Immediate demands were imposed on Agim Murtezi as a misidentified case, while Fatmir Limaj was released from all charges on November 30, 2005 and released. The allegations are related to the prison camp run by the defendants in Lapu? Nik between May and July 1998.

In March 2005, a UN tribunal demanded Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj for war crimes against Serbs, on March 8 he submitted his resignation. Haradinaj, an ethnic Albanian, is a former commander who heads the Kosovo Liberation Army unit and was appointed Prime Minister after winning a vote of 72 votes for three in the Kosovo Parliament in December 2004. Haradinaj was released on all charges but recalled. for witnessing intimidation and facing a retrial. However, on November 29, 2012, Haradaniaj and all KLA fighters were released from all charges.

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See also

  • Kosovo War
  • Horseshoe Operation
  • Allied Forces Operations
  • 2004 riots in Kosovo
  • The history of 20th century Kosovo
  • List of massacres in the Kosovo War
  • Women from Krusha e Madhe

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References


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Further reading

  • Bajgora, Sabri (2014). Destruction of the Islamic Heritage in the Kosovo War 1998-1999 . Pristina: Interfaith Kosovo, the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Kosovo. ISBN: 9789951595025.

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External links

  • Kosovo War Crime Chronology
  • Human Rights in Kosovo: As Seen, As Told, 1999 (OSCE report)
  • Under Command: War Crimes in Kosovo (Human Rights Watch report)
  • UN Secretary General's Report, 31 January 1999
  • Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing (Michigan State University)
  • Human Rights Watch: Rape as Ethnic Cleansing weapon
  • Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo (Report released by US Department of State)
  • ICTY: The Milutinovi indictment? et al. , "Kosovo", 5 September 2002
  • Photo Gallery of Human Hanging Rights
  • Goal History and Memory , SENSE - Transitional Justice Center Ã, (dedicated for research, research, and documentation of the destruction and destruction of historic heritage during the Balkan Wars of 1990. This website contains the court documents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)).

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