The trial against Peter Shala continues today to hear the sixth witness

According to the announcement made by the Special Chambers, the session will begin at 09:30, until the hearing of the sixth witness in a row (with Code 11) that will answer the prosecution's questions.

We remember that during yesterday's day witness number 11, he said that in the room where they were held in the metal factory in Kukes, they were ordered to slap each other.

“We've been forced by the man-shot to slap him as hard as you can, the more the noise he fell for”, he said.

Regarding who forced them to do so, he said that “came a few more people, even a civilian there, and ordered us to play the husband-scoff”.

Similarly, the witness provided clarifications about the incidents that had occurred to him, once that he had been beaten with a rubber rod on his chest, which he described as having suffered much pain and the second time after a few days that had bruised his eye with his fist.

It was morning, I don't know about 9 or 10, and three people walked in, and I didn't want to see them, and I don't know since I was in a coma, but they punched me, so they punched me, so I don't know.

The Witness said that his eye had become black and had had a little bleeding and intense pain, saying that his eye tears too often to this day.

However, wondering if he had been told something that day, he said that he heard only voices, saying quashuna, traitor, which according to the witness was for the people in that room.

Otherwise, Peter Shala was arrested on 16 March 2021 by Belgian authorities and transferred to The Hague on April 15th 2021, on a request for co-operation in implementing the warrant and the command for transfer issued by Kosovo's Specialised Chambers.

In the confirmed indictment, Shala is charged with individual criminal responsibility in various forms of war crimes as arbitrary bans, cruel treatment, torture and illegal murder committed in the context of the armed conflict in Kosovo and in connection with this conflict.

The “commands that Mr. Shala was carried out approximately between May 17th 1999 and June 5, 1999, against persons who were held in the metal factory in Kukes (Albania), allegedly used by the Kosovo Liberation Army”, it is said in the communique.