Followed: Those accused of killing 118 civilians in Pec do not appear in hearings, judiciary in Serbia does not function on these types of crimes

The prosecution says the justice system in Serbia is the destroyed one. This is because, according to her, those accused of killing 118 civilians in Pec villages more often do not appear in court hearings.

“If war crimes indictees in the villages of Peja municipality, where they have killed 118 civilians as members of the VTO WJ, do not come to 3 out of the planned 8 sessions, this indicates that the judiciary is “broken”, which is supported by the fact that the first degree act of prejudice was issued in 2014”, writes persecuted at X.

Persecuted for this case, it refers to the suspension of Vladan Krstovijqi, the active member of the gendarmerie against which the War Crimes Prosecutor has filed charges in the Lubenic case, following the Fund's request for humanitarian law (FDH).

FDH at the time stressed that the Serbian Army and the Defence Ministry refused to agree to withdraw from active service the Serbian Army officer and deputy officer (US), Pavlo Gavrilovjcin and Rajko Kozlline, who are tried for crimes against civilians in the village of Ternje in March 1999.

FDH, in December 2013, sent a request to Gendarmeria to dismiss Vladan Krstovijcin, who in the PKL indictment is charged with killing at least 46 Albanian civilians along with other members of the 177-military territorial unit (177 DUT) in the village of Lubenik (Pej) on April 1st 1999. In the indictment of the PKL, Krstovic is also accused of violent displacement of women, children and elderly people for Albania, the burning of family homes and the intimidation of civilians. The request has been submitted in accordance with Article 165, the 3th chapter of the Police Law, which envisions that the Ministry's “worker may be suspended from working with the leadership's rational proposal, when to him/she has been approved the formal act of investigating the criminal work that is attended by official duty or the disciplinary procedure for serious violations of the official duty and whether his presence in the workplace would harm service interests. ”

In response to March 21, 2014 FDH was informed that Gendarmerie Commander Krstovic is suspended until the end of the criminal procedure.

The FDH emphasises that identical demand has been handed over to and General Staff General Dikovic's General General General General in connection with US officer and deputy officer charged as members of the Yugoslav Army's 549 motorised Brigade participated in the murder of at least 27 Albanian civilians. FDH has not yet received an answer, but Defence Minister Nebojsa Rodic in his statement to the daily newspaper “Danas” has commented on the FHAH request saying that Serbia's “Defence Ministry and Armed Forces Security Agency will act only according to the request of the Prosecutor and the Court, and [will] respond to all their requests to determine whether the criminal act of war crime has been carried out”. The minister has not explained the decision not to use the legal opportunity to dismiss those accused of serious crimes because of damage to the military's reputation.

FDH recalls that among more than 160 people charged with war crimes, 10 percent were active members of the military and police at the time of the indictment. THE FIGHT has then invited state bodies to confirm the biographies and determine the worthiness of carrying out the civil service of all members of police and army who were involved in operations in which the crimes were committed against civilians.