Okružni sud u Nišu osudio četvoricu kosovskih Albanaca da bi pokrio vreme koje su proveli u pritvoru
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The District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 16 November found Nenad Pavicevic guilty of murdering three members of the Hajrizi family and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Co-defendant Lazar Gligorovski was acquitted of the charge of murder because of lack of evidence. The panel, presided by Judge Mahmut Halimi and including international judge Christer Karphammer, gave Gligorovski a two-year suspended sentence for illegal possession of firearms. Gligorovski was arrested a year ago while Pavicevic was tried in absentia.
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The trial of two Kosovo Serbs, Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac, on the charge of genocide resumed before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 13 November. The Humanitarian Law Center is observing all trials for ethnically motivated crimes in Kosovo. The panel, presided by Judge Mahmut Halimi and including international judge Christer Karphammer, is to establish whether the defendants committed the criminal offense charged by Prosecutor Jusuf Mejzini: deliberate and planned torching of villages and killing of Albanian civilians with the aim of partly or completely destroying the ethnic Albanian community. Bisevac is being tried in absentia.
The trial of two Kosovo Serbs, Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac, for genocide resumes before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, 31 October. Bisevac is being tried in absentia. According to the indictment, Vuckovic and Bisevac and other unidentified persons forced the ethnic Albanian inhabitants of Suvi Do and Gusgevac villages to leave their homes by shooting off firearms. They are also charged with looting and torching Albanian houses and the murder of Hazire Sahiti, an elderly woman, whose house they allegedly set afire “even though they were aware she was inside.” In the indictment broght on 11 November last year, the prosecutor proposed the calling of 25 witnesses. The five witnesses heard so far accused Vuckovic and Bisevac of crimes not cited in the indictment, including torture and killing of civilians.Counsel for the defense – Miodrag Brkljac, Miro Delevic, Zoran Janicijevic and Ljubomir Pantovic – pointed to the contradictory testimonies of the witnesses, some of which conflicted with the statements they made during the investigation.
The trial of Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac on the charge of genocide resumes in Kosovska Mitrovica on 25 October. Bisevac is being tried in absentia.
It is easier to breathe in Serbia now. I recently saw a policeman beating a hasty retreat down the street, running as if his life was at stake. The young man he was running from explained to bypassers that he had done nothing to the policeman, merely asked how come he felt free to walk around in public. People laughed and said, “Right, we’ll show them we are the boss now.”
Fond za humanitarno pravo
Human Rights Watch
Ovaj memorandum se bavi pitanjem kosovskih Albanaca – političkih zatvorenika – u Srbiji. Novi predsednik Jugoslavije Vojislav Koštunica obavezao se da će poštovati ljudska prava i raditi na uspostavljanju vladavine prava u Jugoslaviji. Ispravljanje slučajeva u kojima je pravda izostala, poput slučajeva zatvorenih kosovskih Albanaca, pokazalo bi rešenost da se ovo obećanje ispuni.