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Indictment against 5 suspects for war crimes in Kosovo

2024-12-27 16:50:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Indictment against 5 suspects for war crimes in Kosovo

The Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo announced on Friday that it has filed an indictment against five suspects for war crimes against the civilian population during the war in Kosovo in 1998-1999.

The five suspects, with the initials DC, DN, M.SH, NS and SJ, are accused of participating in the murder of eight Albanian civilians in the Gjilan region during the war, as part of a criminal group.

"Two of these victims were placed in a pile of wood, where one of them was burned alive," said the Prosecutor's Office.

They are suspected that, together with other unidentified members of this group, armed and dressed in camouflage uniforms and non-regular uniforms of the Serbian police or army, they had beaten, ill-treated, tortured, robbed and deported Albanian civilians during the war , according to the indictment.

The defendants M.Sh and NS are also accused of carrying weapons without a permit, the indictment states.

Last December, the Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo said that it has filed a total of 33 indictments, involving 89 people, for war crimes in Kosovo.

Since the end of the last war in Kosovo, about 70 people have been convicted of war crimes before local and international institutions.

From 2000 to 2008, war crimes in Kosovo were investigated by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), while from 2008, by the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX).

In 2018, this mission submitted the cases to the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office and local courts.

During the last war in Kosovo in 1998-1999, over 13,000 civilians were killed and thousands more disappeared.

Over 1,600 people are still missing - most of them Albanians./ REL





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