an hour agoKosovar testifies in Belgrade as shot during war by Serbian forces
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Albanian from Kosovo, Maliq Voci, has testified at the Belgrade Supreme Court how he was wounded during an attack on the village of Tarnje by Serb forces on March 25th 1999. Voci has confessed how he left home early in the morning to feed the cows when he was shot from a hill [...]
Voci has confessed how he left his home early in the morning to feed the cows when he was shot by a nearby hill. The bullet had shot him in the back and penetrated him from the front of his body.
When I was shot, my family took me home and I didn't see anything after that”, Voci said, writes Balkaninsight.
He has indicated that he has returned to his village of Ternje three months later to announce that his aunt and three other relatives were killed.
Former Yugoslav Army officers Pavle Gavrilovovic and Ranko Kozlina are being investigated in court for the killing of 27 people, including the elderly and a four-year-old boy during the attack on March 25th, 1999.
Gavrilovic is accused of ordering the attack, saying that “should not have survived” written in the indictment.
Gavrilovovic, the commander of the unit at the Yugoslav Army's 549 Brigade, is accused of dividing his people to three groups, with the defendant Kozlina one, and has ordered them to enter the village and ethnically cleanse the area.
Kozlina, along with three other soldiers, has opened fire on 18 civilians, including women and children, so killing 16 of them, writes in the indictment.
It also writes that other civilians were shot in other homes around the village.
