Judgment against war crimes indictees in Upper Ferizaj Nerodims fails

They are charged by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK), that, in co-ordination with other members of the police, the army and Serbian paramilitaries, they had committed criminal war crimes, reports “Justice Vow Vow”.

Due to this session's failure was the absence of accused D. St., who couldn't introduce a hearing because of his condition.

“After last session, the condition of accused D. St. It has deteriorated and the same has been hospitalised at the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo” announced the chairman of the court, Judge Musa Condzhel, who said accused U.S. He's back in a high-security prison where he's in custody, but the same is continuing medical treatment.

Judge Kondzhel announced the parties regarding the causes of this session's failure in the Serbian language as well because of the lack of translators.

The next hearings where witnesses proposed by the prosecution are expected to be heard are scheduled to be held on January 27th and January 28, 2020, by 9:30.

Otherwise, after confirming the indictment, the court had launched a trial hearing in July of this year, meanwhile at the initial session held in January 2020, the two defendants had denied guilt.

According to the indictment compiled on December 30, 2019, accused Mr. K., on March 26, 1999, about 10: 00 p.m., in the village of Upper Nerodim, the Ferizaj municipality, in association with other members of the police, the army, and Serbian paramilitary, dressed in police uniform and armed, knowingly and deliberately acting on the plan and orders of its superiors, has participated in the attack of the Albanian national population, namely, the N family. who have not actively participated in armed conflict.

Always according to the charge, the same action in co-operation with other members of the police, military, and paramilitary forces, originally by military and police motor vehicles, has entered the O backyard. N, then under shots of weapons and screams in the Serbian language, swift and shaped have entered the house, where 19 members of this family were sheltered, among them children, women, and men.

Then, it is said that the defendant, in interaction with other perpetrators who belonged to police, military, and paramilitary forces, has taken part in the serious violation of the personality and dignity of the members of this family, because he is strongly under threat of weapons, feeling fear of their lives, forced out of their homes, and treating them violently in the face of the house, holding them in fear and pressure for a long time.

In addition, it is said that as long as civilian persons of the N. family were lined up in the courtyard, in their presence, the defendant in interaction with other perpetrators has participated in the illegal and deliberate destruction of this family's wealth, the burning of houses, animals, food of animals, and all the property found in the courtyard, which was not justified with military need.

Then, according to the prosecution, the defendant has also attended the expulsion of 15 members of this family, who were previously lined up in the courtyard, where, in interaction with the other perpetrators, under the threat of weapons, they have been ordered to move out of their homeland by force in the unknown direction.

On the other hand, the defendant is said to have participated in the hostage taking of four persons of this family, who, acting in co-operation with other perpetrators, initially separated them from other family members, the O. N, B. N., A. N. and B. N., now feel. After receiving them, it is said that it has essentially contributed to their cruel treatment, torturing, torturing, mutilating, and ultimately killing with firearms whose bodies, with the intention of concealing crime, have been thrown across the magic Pristina road Ferizaj, specifically in the village of Babush.

For this, it is alleged that in co-ordination it has committed war crimes against the civilian population” by Article 142 concerning Article 22 of RSP, seen in the Penal Code of the Republic of Kosovo, war crimes in serious violation of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention by Article 146, paragraph 1 and 2 , subpargraphy 2,1.2 and 2,3 of KPRK, related to the 31st KPR.

The defendant D. According to the indictment, on April 1, 1999, in the quality of the police inspector, armed with automatic weapons, with the aim of desecration, humiliation and derogatory treatment of lifeless bodies, victims O. N., B. N., A. N. and I. R., has ordered their troops to be buried without dignity and contrary to the rules of war defined by international humanitarian law.

According to the prosecution, on the same day, according to the order of the defendants and other police members, the lifeless bodies of the supposed victims were washed clean through H persons. K., I. A. and another person called “Rada”, with the <x2 type truck > FAP”, yellow-coloured, has been withdrawn from the Morgu of Pristina, yet without an autopsy being done and sent to the vicinity of Ferizaj City cemetery called the Muslim “varrest”, where the accused D was expected. The U.S., which has immediately just arrived on lifeless bodies, has ordered the person named “Maxut” to begin opening a hole with the aim of throwing these.

Meanwhile, the prosecution later says that following the opening of the hole of approximately 2 to 3m wide and 70 to 80cm deep, defendant D. The U.S. has ordered that bodies of those killed first get off the truck, and then, without respect, religious traditions and rituals have all been irregularly thrown into the same massive pit.

According to the indictment, in its conclusion, the defendant in opposition to the docks, the religious customs and regulations of the slain has ordered that through the excavator, the lifeless bodies thrown into the mass pit be covered with soil, not keeping a note of the identity of the buried and leaving no identification of the cemetery.

On this, it is accused of committing criminal acts “of war crimes against the civilian population” by Article 142 RSFJ's LP, currently punishable by the Republic of Kosovo Penal Code by Article 146, paragraph 2.2 “War crimes in serious violation of Article 3 joint conventions of Geneva”.