23 minutes agoRetrial for Sicik Massacre Fails in Belgrade Continues
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)On October twoth of this year, the retrial against the Serbian paramilitary unit “Chikalls” in Belgrade failed. They are accused of being guilty of massacres in Kik, Lubenik, Pavlan and Zahaq. Dukaagjini television in Belgrade has talked with monitoring of this process, while bringing the confession of survivors of the Sik massacre to Ardian Kelmendi. “My family [...]
They are accused of being guilty of massacres in Kik, Lubenik, Pavlan and Zahaq. Dukaagjini television in Belgrade has talked with monitoring of this process, while bringing the confession of survivors of the Sik massacre to Ardian Kelmendi.
My family starts from here...” Seven family members and two guests were killed, Ardian Kelmendi, on May 14, 1999.
Only in the village of Kelmendi, Sqik, 47 people were killed for one day.
He does not know how he escaped execution.
Only fat, not the best, not the worst. I've only gotten fat, right here where I've been delivered for a few minutes, I've been taken by gun shots, from the first, other men have been shot, and I've been saving some of us, and some of us have saved”, Kelmen said.
In the quality of survivors of the massacre, he has also witnessed in Belgrade, with the judicial process now lasting 12 years.
Charged are members of the “Cheals” paramilitary unit
Marina Kljajic of the Fund for Humanitarian Law in Serbia has conveyed the trial from the beginning and shows that a session failed to be held only a few days ago, because one of the prisoners was not brought to trial.
Kljajic left the main blame for this procrastination to the prosecution.
The most guilt we can say here is that there are prosecutors who entered this unprepared procedure, so the indictment was first fulfilled with new crimes and new defendants, from whom some have fled and others have died. The biggest job has been done, so we hope that within a year at least one-on-a-half-one-second subject, Kljajic stressed.
And the testimony in Serbia, for Ardian Kelmendi, has not been easy.
Each time it was heavy, especially in Serbia it has been something cold and incredible. For us, there was a “broken will”, to go and testify in Serbia, that we knew for ourselves, it would mean that they killed you, that they went to testify to you to tell you you you did this to us, we have days since a sentence that could not happen to a merited”, Kelmen added.
In 2014, the first instance sentenced nine Serb warriors to a total of 106 years in prison, but then Apel turned the subject into retrial. / RTV Dukagini/
