Witness says Salih Mustafa has contributed to housing and relief for civilians

Sopi has said that in late March 1999, after the start of NATO bombings, along with civilians have left Pristina for the village of Bovovac, where he has stressed he is also home.

Sopi: At the end of March 1999, we left Pristina, because of the depression we had no choice

The reviews are difficult, the time and circumstances have been very difficult, it was a very large depression in the city, but not only in the rest of my city but also in other parts of the city, the Serbian police and paramilitary were doing unprecedented violence, and there was no other way but to organise in some way the people and the part that was actually where we lived, with all my friends and interactions and to instruct from Bovci because it was also my birthplace and that perhaps it would be a little less secure, he said.

On the other hand, he has said that Salih Mustafa has also contributed to the shelter of civilians in the village of Bovovac.

Sopi: Salih Mustafa has also contributed to civil population housing

During the time we had housing, settlement, many have also contributed to Salih Mustafa, whom I have often met and talked to and told me that indeed to help the people, to be given shelter, to make sure of their food, to provide them with”, Sopi said.

With Salih Mustaf, he has said he has been known since Mustaf's release from prison, and according to him, this happened through his brother, Mustaf Sopi, who had been professor of Salih Mustafafa.

Ghani Sopi has said he has stayed in Bbutovac until June 13th that year, while stressing that he has reported to his brother, Mustaf Sopi.

Sopi: With Salih Mustaf, I met in the first two weeks of April 1999 in the village of Bbutovac

April's “April is a big fan for me personally, but also for all Albanians and all that area that was Gollak's. It is true that I met him early in April in the early weeks of April, Salih Mustafen in Bbutovac. The reason has been that it was Bajram, the first, the second one, has been this very close to his brother, his professor, and has come to Bovovac but has also come with sightseeing the population that was numerous in Bbutovac and to see how they are located, how they are organised, how they are sheltered, how food is being collected of many other” cases, the witness has said.

He has said that with Salih Mustaf's Mustap Soup, Mustafen has appeared several times in observation points since Serbian military and police were positioned not far from their whereabouts in the village of Bbutlic, according to him.

 Sopi: We talked to Salih Mustaf about the civilian population.

The “Dates may be moving because of very distant circumstances and times, 23 years, I know it was the first week and the second week of April. We've met, we've talked, but this has been basically contact and profe because in those circumstances and at that time we had more responsible, and the co-ordination of jobs has been more of a professor of Mustaf Sopi, my late brother, who has already co-ordinated and had those specific tasks, but I've stayed and talked about the situation that has even been within the civilian population”, he said.

Sopi has said Salih Mustafa had been in Bbutovac in civilian clothes, stressing a green jacket.

He has said Salih Mustafa had stayed at Mustaf Sopi's house.

Sopi has told the court that Salih Mustafa is his friend and co-war and has added that he also has family ties because his niece is Mustafa's wife.

Sopi has indicated that political activity began in the years of BAR90 as one of the founders of the Democratic League of Kosovo.

He has said that in the LDK he was a leading member, while in the period of war he also led the information commission where there were structures that gave him information.

While having announced that it was locked in the Kosovo Liberation Army in January 1998.

During his testimony to Gani Sopi, among other things, he has said that on March 24th 1999 he was injured in Pristina but did not want to talk more about the event.

Salih Mustafa was arrested on September 24, 2020, with the claim of war crimes.

According to the Specialised Chambers “The confirmed indictment stipulates that approximately between April 1st 1999 and April 19, 1999, at a detention complex in Zlatko, Kosovo, arbitrary crimes, cruel treatment and torture against at least six persons were committed. Also, the indictment says that on a date between April 19, 1999, or about this date, and about the end of April 1999, a banned” was killed at that location.

Salih Mustafa is staying in custody at The Hague, while in his appearance before the court he has been declared innocent