They killed 45 Albanian neighbours, and their homes burned witness to Slovenian residents against Serb villagers

In the trial for war crimes against the civilian population that Goran Stanisic is accused of, witnesses have claimed that in 1999, Serbian fellow villagers in the village of Slovii dressed in paramilitary uniforms have killed about 45 people and burned houses. At Monday's session, Witness B. B, the brother of the F.B., who was left [...]
At Monday's session, Witness B. B, the brother of the F.B., who was killed during the pre-milial attacks, has said that on the morning of April 15th 1999, Serbian paramilitaries, residents of the village of Slovi, have surrounded the tin village by placing them in front of their homes, reports the “Betim for Justice”.
They have no permission to leave the village once, and then from two o'clock up, they start killing people and burn down their homes. We as a family are away, we've gone to father's homeland there on the mountain at”, witness B.B. has declared.
According to him, at 6: 00 p.m., they returned to their home in the village of Slovi with his brother F. B, witness F.G. and cousin R.B.
“F. He was in Vrebica, and R. He said my father was a smut, he couldn't pull me out of the house, could he come help me get him? They're starting out and we're in the meadows that I've been to another place and not start going towards the village of”, witness B.B. has added.
Then, he said, "When we're back, we've each gone through our homes to get flour or something. I went with Brother F., R.B. or went home, and then we're all in the lodge yard together. By 19 p.30 p.m., we've been sitting around and there's a sound of a car. Lada Samaraı, who has stopped at our sokka”.
At the request of the chairman of the court, Judge Valon Kurtaj, the witness has drawn up a sketch of the site that has been attached to the chip.
The witness has described the event that after the car stopped, Goran came down, who had been sitting in the passenger seat before and four others, among them, named after Duro and Sasha, who, according to him, had subsequently landed.
The B.B. has stated that accused Goran Stanisic had been wearing the paramilitary vest, and that everyone had then started shooting in their direction.
We're standing up and starting to run, I've gone there, brother and R. They've gone straight into our houses, where F. He fell away in that direction. I haven't seen him when he's hurt, he's hurt before, but up till he can walk. In 15 minutes, I've been calling everywhere, when I'm near or con dead”, it added to his testimony, B.B.
In the special prosecutor's question, Drita Hajdari, the same has indicated that after the war, international doctors had done the autopsy to his brother, who was later buried in the village of Slovii and all the others then killed.
According to B's statement. B, there was a mistake in the autopsy report regarding the last name of the late F. B, but the witness said there is no person with the same name as his brother's among the 45 killed in Slovenian.
While the defender of accused Stanisic, lawyer Lubomir Pantovic has faced witness B.B. with his statements, issued in 2005 before UNMIK investigators.
Lawyer Pantovic has said that in earlier statements, the witness had declared that from car “Lada Samara”, they were dating Duro, Sasha and Tomqi, but not Goran.
In these questions, witness B.B. has said UNMIK investigators could not understand exactly, but according to him, he told you that in the event of April 15, 1999, Goran, Tomqi's son, had come out of that car.
In this hearing, he gave his testimony even to F's father. B, witness R. B, who said that day the villagers were starting to flee in large measure.
The big boy has attached you to the mass to the wife and the child, and I get the next one, there are hills, the police have turned down, and we have a valley down, we're not running back. Now the police have turned the move down, and they've got it out of the car, and they've got the” gun, said witness R.B.
He has declared that after five days he had gone to pick up his son's body, due to the inability to go earlier from the village siege by Serbian paramilitary.
On the other hand, the defendant's defense, the Pantovic lawyer, has had no questions for witness R.B., arguing that he is not a direct witness to the murder and has no direct knowledge of the murder described at point 2 of the indictment.
Otherwise, the next hearings in this case are scheduled to be held on November 5, 12, and November 13, 2020, starting at 9:00.
According to the indictment filed by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo, accused Goran Stanisic, as a member of Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs reserve police, in April 1999, during the war in Kosovo, in opposition to the rules of international humanitarian law, during a broad and systematic attack by Serb paramilitary and police forces against the Albanian civilian population, in the villages of Slovi and Trbov, in co-operation with other members of this entity, had participated in the expulsion of the Albanian civilian population and in committing illegal acts and other illegal acts.
As reported in the indictment, on April 15, 1999, in the village of Slovi of the Lipjan municipality, the defendant in interaction with other members of the unit had gone to the front yard of the G family, ordered the members of this family out of the house, and after they had gone out, had separated the men from the women, had forced the women and children out of the yard on the street, where, in the presence of witnesses Mr.G. and her daughter J.J., who had not yet left the courtyard, had been lined up by the court of the MG, his two sons, the EG, and his grandsons, the AG, and then, in the presence of their gun, and then, the XHG.
On the other hand, the indictment says that the same day and in the same village, in interaction with other members of the unit, by vehicle had gone to the courtyard of the family home B. After they left the car, they had fired automatic weapons toward F.G., B. B, F.B. and R.B., who had been in the yard near the well, and they killed F.B. by shooting him in the back, and F. G, B.B. and R.B. had escaped running in different directions from the scene.
Always according to the indictment, the same day and in the same village, in the vicinity of the old village school, had been separated from the pillar of Albanian civilian population that had forced them to abandon the village, J. K, B.G., V. P, R. K, A.I. and F. B, and after being lined up in front of a wall, they fired on them with automatic weapons, killing them all in place.
On April 16, 1999, in the village of Trbovc in the Lipjan municipality, at the site called “The Lakes Luger”, the defendant along with four other uniformed and armed persons, had banned the injured A.I. along with now the late Mr.G, who had been going through the mountains to join their fellow villagers and families.
As said in the indictment, damaged A.I had issued a pack of cigarettes at the request of the defendants, and by giving them cigarettes to other people, she had taken advantage of the case and had started running to escape, while the defendant with other armed persons had shot at her in the direction of killing her, where she had been hit in the right thigh, for what she had collapsed, and had rolled up to the stream, where the villagers had found her in the evening, and since she had shown them where she had been separated to feel Z. G, the villagers had gone there and they found the same guy dead.
For this, the prosecution charges the prosecution that, in co-operation with other unknown members of the Serbian police reserve unit and other armed persons, it has committed the criminal work “the crimes of the war against the civilian population” by Article 142, regarding Article 22 of the Socialist Republic of the former Yugoslavia's Criminal Republic, currently penalised as war crimes in serious violation of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention by Article 146, paragraph 1, and Article 2, sub-1, related to the 31st Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo.












