Međunarodno sudsko veće donelo pravičnu presudu za ratni zločin protiv kosovskih Albanaca
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The District Court in Prizren on 4 September 2002 acquitted for lack of evidence Kosovo Serb Sasa Grkovic of several counts of war crimes against the civilian population. The decision of the panel, made up of two international and one local judge, was unanimous.
In a unanimous decision on 14 June this year, the international panel of the District Court in Prizren found two Kosovo Serbs, Cedomir Jovanovic and Andjelko Kolasinac, guilty of war crimes against the civilian population in Orahovac during the NATO intervention. The three-judge panel, with Dr Ingo Risch of Germany presiding, sentenced Jovanovic to 20 and Kolasinac to five years in prison.
The trial of Kosovo Serbs Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac on the charge of genocide resumes on 7 December. The panel of the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica has ex officio summoned five witnesses, assessing that the testimonies of the 23 witnesses for the prosecution heard so far have not made it possible to establish whether Vuckovic and Bisevac committed the crime of genocide. Judge Mahmut Halimi, who presides the panel, said the court needed testimonies of the new witnesses in order to determine the facts of the case.
The trial of six Kosovo Serbs on the charge of genocide opens before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 5 December. Igor Simic, one of the defendants, has been in custody for the past 15 months. Co-defendants Dragan Jovanovic, Srdjan Aleksic, Vlastimir Aleksic, Branislav Popovic and Tomislav Vuckovic in the meantime escaped from the District Prison in Kosovska Mitrovica and will be tried in absentia. Prosecutor Muharem Ramadani has charged the six Serbs with “deliberately killing Albanians, forcing them in an organized and systematic manner to move out, plundering and destroying their property, all with the aim of completely or partly destroying the Albanian community in Kosovska Mitrovica.”
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.
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.