| Trial of Gnjilane Group continues |
| 25 September 2009 | 13:40 | Source: Beta |
| BELGRADE -- The trial of the members of the so-called Gnjilane Group of the KLA has resumed at the District Court War Crimes Chamber in Belgrade. The accused are charged with torture and execution of civilians in Kosovo in 1999. Defendant Agus Memisi, who yesterday began his defense by denying all the charges, will take the witness stand today. According to the indictment, between June and late December 1999, members of the Gnjilane Group brutally executed at least 80 civilians, physically abused at least 153 people, while 34 people are still listed as missing. 17 members of the group, including eight who are still on the run and being tried in absentia, are accused of imprisonment, looting, torture, abuse, rape and murder of civilians. The accused that are still on the run are Fazlia Ajdari, Redxhep Aliji, Saqir Saqiri, Sefket Musliji, Sadik Aliji, Idriz Aliji, Semsija Nuhiju and Ramadan Halimi. The other defendants—Agus Memisi, Faton Hajdari, Ahmet Hasani, Nazif Hasani, Samet Hajdari, Ferat Hajdari, Kamber Sahiti, Selimon Sadiku and Burim Fazliju—were arrested on December 26 in Preševo, and have since been in custody in Belgrade. The trial resumes at 14:30 CET at the Special Court. |
Gnjilane Group trial continues in Belgrade
AntwortenLöschen1 February 2010 | 09:28 | Source: Beta
BELGRADE -- The trial of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army’s Gnjilane Group continues on Monday before the Belgrade High Court’s war crimes chamber.
They are accused of torturing and brutally killing Serb, other non-Albanian and some Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.
According to the indictment, this KLA group, arrested in Preševo in late 2008, is accused of brutally killing at least 80 civilians and physically abusing at least 153, in between June and December 1999, while 53 persons are still registered as missing.
A total of 17 members of the group are accused of imprisoning, robbing, torturing, abusing, raping and brutally killing Serb, non-Albanian and Albanian civilians. Eight of them are still at large and are being tried in absentia.
The indictment states that they broke the fingers of civilians with pipes, pulled out their nails and teeth, stabbed their tongues with knives, nailed lighters through the openings in the skulls of their victims, strangled them with bags and barbed wire, cut their genitalia off with machetes, slit their throats with knives and raped most of the women.
In order to hide the crimes, they cut the bodies into small pieces with axes and handsaws, put them in bags and threw them into a garbage disposal, while the bodies of some were thrown through the window and into the Livočko Lake.
The accused are ethnic Albanians Agus Memisi, Faton Hajdari, Ahmet Hasani, Nazif Hasani, Samet Hajdari, Ferat Hajdari, Kamber Sahiti, Selimon Sadiku and Burim Fazliju.
The leaders Fazlia Ajdari, Redzep Aliji and Sacip Saciri are still at large, along with Sefket Musliji, Sadik Aliji, Idriz Aliji, Semsija Nuhiju and Ramadan Halimi.
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