5 minutes agoWar crimes convict in Kosovo, in Serbia's Army even after judicial decision
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Serbia's Defence Ministry has announced on Wednesday, November 11th that Deputy Officer Rajko Kozlline, convicted of war crimes in Kosovo, has been interrupted by professional military service on March 16th 2020, due to the loss of the degree, unjustly for retirement, the Ministry for Beta Agency says in response. With [...]
Serbia's Defence Ministry has announced on Wednesday, November 11th that Deputy Officer Rajko Kozlline, convicted of war crimes in Kosovo, has been interrupted by professional military service on March 16th 2020, due to the loss of the degree, unjustly for retirement, the Ministry for Beta Agency says in response.
With this, the information, which Radio Free Europe received from the Supreme Court on November 7th of this year, has been confirmed that Kozlline was an active member of Serbia's Army even after the verdict was issued.
Similarly, on November 11th, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), referring to the Radio Free Europe report, called on the Ministry of Defence as soon as possible to publicise Rajko Kozlina's working status in Serbia's Army, and if he continues to have the rank of deputy officer, to release him urgently.
This organisation has asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice to determine responsibility for the escape of the convicted war criminal, for whom the Supreme Court has announced arrest warrants.
“The Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Justice are obliged to shed light on the circumstances in which Kozlline remained employed in Serbia's Army, or whether, because he is not serving a” prison sentence, the statement said.
In this statement, Y The IHR has added that the convict is in prison instead of in institutions responsible for punishing the authors, as well as expressing respect for war crimes victims.
Kozlina was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the tribunal in April 2019 for the 15th murder and the wound of two Albanian civilians in Ternje, Suhareka, in 1999. He was convicted because he ordered the group of soldiers he led, as well as himself, to commit this crime.
After he failed to appear in prison for serving his sentence, the First Founding Court in Belgrade on 9 September this year issued an arrest warrant for Kozlline. (REL)
