The\u00a0Special Prosecution of Kosovo\u00a0has filed an indictment\u00a0in absentia\u00a0for war crimes against\u00a0L.D.\u00a0and\u00a0V.O.\u00a0at the Basic Court in Prishtina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the announcement, the defendants are accused that during the period\u00a01998\u20131999 in Gjakova, acting in co-perpetration with other members of the Serbian police and military forces, they violated the rules of international law by participating in\u00a0killings, mistreatment, arrests, theft, and destruction of property\u00a0belonging to the civilian population of Albanian nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the indictment, on\u00a0March 25 and 26, 1999, on \u201cTahir Efendiu\u201d street, during an operation of Serbian police forces in which the defendants also took part as police officers,\u00a0one civilian was killed and six civilians of Albanian nationality were mistreated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is well-grounded suspicion that the defendants, acting in co-perpetration, surrounded the house of the injured party\u00a0N.K., where N.K., M.M., S.G., B.G., B.Sh., A.C., and Q.Sh. were located. They were physically and psychologically abused, forced to load into the police truck all aid materials stored in the humanitarian association \u201cMother Teresa,\u201d and then forcibly put into a truck and taken to the Gjakova police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the police station, the victims were separated into different cells, where they were kept for\u00a024 hours without food, water, or medical assistance, and were continuously beaten and mistreated by the defendants and other Serbian police officers using rubber batons, kicks, and punches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The detainee\u00a0M.M., on the day he was taken out of his cell,\u00a0March 26, 1999, was found\u00a0killed near the Taliq Bridge in Gjakova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The\u00a0Special Prosecution of Kosovo\u00a0has filed an indictment\u00a0in absentia\u00a0for war crimes against\u00a0L.D.\u00a0and\u00a0V.O.\u00a0at the Basic Court in Prishtina. According to the announcement, the defendants are accused that during the period\u00a01998\u20131999 in Gjakova, acting in co-perpetration with other members of the Serbian police and military forces, they violated the rules of international law by participating in\u00a0killings, mistreatment, arrests, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[439,1536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76949,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76947\/revisions\/76949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}