Witness: Peter Shala tortured my husband in Kukes

In this case, the court's chairman asked the defense to speak with Shala, to see if he could attend the session, although as she put it, he has the right not to be present in the hall.

She said the greatest effort must be made so that the sessions are not closed.

The hearing continued with an interrogation of the witness from the Victims' Protector.

She was asked to describe her husband.

He was the one with the highest human eye. He only acts within the law”, she said. Asked about the impact of what happened on her husband emotionally, the witness said that the whole case has been very bad in him.

“has gained sugar disease, trauma and continuing medical treatment, while in the emotional sense it has been very serious”, she said. According to the witness, these psychic effects, having been released from the metal factory in which it was kept, have lasted several years.

But there is a beginning to be a relief and relaxation when things began to move so that justice could be put in place”, said the protected witness, explaining that he received therapy after he received diabetes from holding it and using soothing steps.

After a few years, he got other diseases, he lost sight of diabetes, then he had problems and prostates, and then kidneys, because he was badly abused in the Kukes metal factory. And of those tortures, the witness said, "The disease has won”."

These therapies have used five or six years”.

The defender of the victims asked if her husband had hallucinations, as she described them. The Witness claimed that. The hallucinations were from torture. During the night, she would immediately say, where are we”, call the boys, say, where are they?

It was a problem. We told her we were at home”, she said. “For several years this situation has been transmitted to”.

The protected Witness said that her husband would also groan from time to time. “When he saw those dreams, he would get up from his bed, sit on his bed, stand up, and be unable to lie down”.

The defender of the victims asked the witness whether what happened to her husband affected the witness personally. “What has happened has had a huge impact on both me and the entire family”.

The protected Witness was also asked what she wanted about their family after what happened to them but after the war ended.

People only speak good words, and we've had good appreciation from all around us, for family, husband, children. Good words and respect” were expressed, the protected witness to the prosecution.

She was also asked about the education of her daughters after the war. “No, they couldn't continue the school due to security, because we were as if we were following the case because we presented the case in EULEX, KFOR and girls have discontinued schooling for security reasons”, she said.

There were bad cases, immoral acts, and that's why we've stopped”.

The protected Witness was asked how she might feel insecure when she was a victim.

We didn't believe what could happen to us because even if they committed crimes, they had criminal acts, they were there. But only by some people, not all persons, not all KLA members, but those who had done works”.

The Witness of the victims said that the witness has a photograph of her husband who wants to share it with the court.

She said that the photograph is seen with her husband when they were engaged in 1973.

Following the Victims' Protector, the questioning of protected prosecution witness from the defense of accused Peter Shala began.