a minute agoBefore March for Justice, the Special reacts, mentions alleged charges and victims of former KLA leaders
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The Special Court has issued a media communiqué concerning the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, former Prime Ministers Kadri Veselin and Jakup Krasniqi, as well as former delegation Rexhep Selimi, expected to begin Monday. This announcement comes shortly before the warned March for Justice is held in Pristina in support of former KLA leaders [...]
The Special Court has issued a media communiqué concerning the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, former Prime Ministers Kadri Veselin and Jakup Krasniqi, as well as former delegation Rexhep Selimi, expected to begin Monday. This announcement comes shortly before the warned March for Justice is held in Pristina in support of former KLA leaders being held in the custody of the Special Court in The Hague.
The specialist has made a summary of pretrial hearings in the case that former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. As the Special reports, “is scheduled for the opening statements to be held on 3, 4 and 5 April, starting at 9: 00 a.m.”. Court hearings can be forwarded to Albanian, Serbian and English, via the tribunal's website with a 45-minute delay.
“Each of the accused is charged on the basis of individual criminal responsibility on six counts of crimes against humanity: persecution, imprisonment, other inhuman acts, torture, unlawful murder and forced disappearance of persons. Also against each of the accused, four counts of war crimes have been filed: arrest and unlawful and arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and illegal murder”, the Special points out.
“In Aktakuza is found that the crimes for which the charges were filed were committed at least from March 1998 to September 1999 and occurred in several countries in Kosovo, as well as in Kukes and Chahan, in northern Albania. The crimes were allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) against hundreds of civilians and persons who did not participate in the fighting. The Aktakuza claims that Thaci, Veselin, Selimi and Krasniqi bear individual criminal responsibility on the basis of various forms of criminal responsibility, for crimes committed in the context of an international armed conflict in Kosovo, which were part of a widespread and systematic attack on persons suspected of being opponents of KLA”, is said in the communique.
Furthermore, the Special has mentioned that “140 persons have been admitted as participating victims in the” judicial process.
“Persons who demonstrate that they have suffered physical, mental or material damage as a direct consequence of a crime put forward at the Confirmed Actakuza applied to participate in the DHSK judicial process. These include those who have been directly injured and who have suffered damage as a result of close contact with a direct victim allegedly killed or injured”, the communiqué says.
