Innocent Dokovic claim to commit crimes against Albanians during war

Such a statement as innocent, accused Milorad Dokovic, did so after the indictment was read by prosecutor Ilir Morina

“I am not guilty”, said accused Dokovic.

Dokovic is charged that in 1998-1999, in the village of Ozdrim-Peja and surrounding villages as a member of Serbian police and military forces, he applied the measures of murder, raid, beating, torture, torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, slavery, deportation and deportation of dozens of Albanian civilians. It is also accused of robbing, burning and destroying the homes of the Albanian civilian population.

Following the defendant's statement, his lawyer, Vasilije Arsic, said he stood by his statement about innocence.

On the other hand, lawyer Arsic begged the court to use Article 402 paragraph 4 of the Criminal Procedure Code to take into account the defence proposal that the defendants make another softer move because the defendant is in custody for 13 months,

He proposed that the court decide on ensuring the presence of indictees Dokovic of the same time pronounced the measure of house arrest, where the defendant said he is ready for the defence, even in the additional assurance of the defendant's security in court review, with the granting of a 20 thousand-euro bail the defendant will not issue the settlement.

Regarding the attorney Arsic's statement, the accused Dokovic said he generally agrees, according to him, the lawyer has all said, has provided guarantees and all others where, according to the same, the accused by the end of the court procedure will not issue residence in Vitomiric Community of Pec.

On the other hand, prosecutor Morina rejected such a proposal, demanding that the same one be rejected, arguing that this detention case has been decided and that they have accepted Apel's decision on the matter for two days.

According to him, there has not been any legal or fact - related circumstances to change the security measure for the defendant's safety in this procedure.

As for bail, however, she believes the court is informed because there is an Appeal decision that, in such cases, when criminal acts are serious and punishment is serious, bail is not applied as a measure of security to the defendant at the hearing.

In contrast, the defendant Dokovic's second defence attorney, lawyer Dejan Vasic, regarding prosecutor Morina's claims, said they are not correct, as according to him, the court is tasked by Article 171 paragraph 2 to always implement a milder measure when a follow-up can be achieved.

After statements by the parties, the chairman of the court, Judge Valon Kurtaj, through his decision-making, rejected the defence proposal for changing the detention measure.

On the other hand, Judge Kurtaj said that if the defence and the defendant find it reasonable to address the court in writing on a written request for changing the detention measure to any easier extent, following the possibility of reasoning, the court will review all and issue a decision on the request for the detention measure.

Under these circumstances, Judge Kurtaj and his lawyers announced that within the 30-day deadline, they could challenge the evidence and demand to drop the indictment.

According to the indictment compiled on June 23rd, 2023, the defendant Dokovic during wartime in Kosovo, in the 1998-1999 village of Ozdrim-Peja municipality, and in villages surrounding the Peja Region, individually and in co-ordination with others, violating the rules of international law, as members of Serbian police and military forces, have applied the measures of murder, raiding, torturing, torturing, torturing, cruel and inhuman treatment, being held in slavery, deportation and deportation of dozens of Albanian civilians, as members of civil destruction and civilian population, the national population that have not taken part of the war, and the specific order of the war (increst) the four consecutive letters (cremes) and the three (censible) in general war) were violated in the order of the three times. August 1949 and additional protocols.

According to the point or the device, the defendant Dodrim reportedly surrounded the village of Ozdrim in the morning of May 07th 1999, the Serbian military, police and paramilitary forces, in which the defendant was part of, originally surrounded by the village of Ozdrim, and then launched a military-cop offensive so that Serb forces divided into three groups attacked the village from the southeast village of Ozdrim, which is limited to the villages of Osoja and Naberdjan had entered the special units of the Serbian Army.

The charge in the indictment is said to be that the northern side of the village of Oztrim with the region's Peja Mitrovice route had entered, and at the end of the western part of the village of Ozdrimica, which borders the village of Vitormirica, including members of special military units, began firing weapons in the direction of the civilian population by which six civilians of Albanian nationality were killed: I.C. St. K, E. M, R.S., Mr. M.H., while three civilians were wounded by these shots: A.G., H. G, M.G., were first transported to the Peja hospital and then executed and buried in the village of Lutoglava, as well as five civilians of Albanian nationality: R.K., Mr.K., A.K., A. K, A. They were killed during the offensive, but their bodies were never found, so they still figure out as extinct;

At the starting point b of the device, it is said that on the date and location mentioned at the point (a) of this device, the Serbian military, police and paramilitary forces in which the defendant, the raid, beat, tortured and arrested dozens of civilian Albanians, so that they first arrested about 40 people and sent them to a garage (sauture) located near the police substation in Ozdrim, which was called the <x0shu of Shem <x1) and held about three days in cruel conditions with all international regulations and conventions, offering no food and drinking, and physically treating the three days of the evening.

According to the indictment then it is said that the rest of the people detained about 28 persons, in three separate groups have been transported to private homes where the Serb police command was located and there they were interrogated by torture, cruel and inhumanly treated, beaten and tortured, and then sent as prisoners to the Peja Pene Prison, from there to Leskov prison in Serbia, where they had continued physical and mental torture on the part of correcting officers by keeping them in conditions without food, hygiene, and without sleeping conditions, who were released after the end of the International Cross, after the end of the war with the International Cross, the Red Cross.

While at c point of the device it is said that on the date and location mentioned at the point (a) of this device, Serbian police and military forces were expelled from their homes village residents, mainly of the Gashi family, Krasniqi, Shala, but others sheltered to those families, mostly elderly, female and child, gathering them among the neighborhood of “Gashve” in the village of Ozdrim and then penetrated them, ordering them to head towards Albania, while after the village's emptying, they began robbing, burning and destroying over 62 houses of the Albanian civilian population who were not involved in war.

With this, there is a well-founded suspicion that, in co-ordination, Krim of the war against the civilian population, sanctioned by Article 142 concerning Article 22 of the Criminal Law of the former Socialist Federation Republic of Yugoslavia (c.x0> RSFJ's LP “) as the law in force at the time of the conduct of criminal acts. / Justice Trust