Criminal Stanissic sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 13 civilians during Kosovo war

Goran Stanisic has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Constitutional Court in Pristina, after being found guilty of killing 13 civilians in Slovenian, Lipjan, during the last war in Kosovo.

The indictment against him was proclaimed Tuesday by the chairman of the court's shame, Judge Valon Kurtaj, reports “The Justice Vow”.

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 in the Lipjan municipality, the defendant in interaction with other members of the unit had gone to the G family's backyard, ordered the members of this family out of the house, and after they had left, had separated the men from the women, forced the women and children out of the yard on the street.

The indictment is said to have later, in the presence of witnesses Mr.G. and her daughter J.H., who had not yet left the courtyard, lined them up near the wall of the M.G. court, his two sons O.G. and E.G., and his two grandchildren, A.G. and B.H., and then shot them with automatic weapons and they had all killed them on the spot, then forced Mr.G. and X.H. to leave the courtyard.

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.