War crimes trial, witness: No way to describe the horrors that day

Such a statement, witness Berisha did during his hearing, pointing to his experiences during 1999 in Staradran.

Initially, witness Berisha declared about what had happened on May 7th of that year.

It happens, one can't even describe the horrors that day. And I could be told that over 50 thousand refugees were that day, not one soldier. They don't have the KLA there. These have divided the column, this (cuseee Bajrovijk) has been present with Gurakoci police officers and premilitars, who have been in masks”, he said.

On the other hand, he said the accused Bajrovic had known him since the 1990s, where he said the same had raided his house after you had refused to go to Yugoslavia for military service.

The “KKE known in the 1990s, has come invitations to go to Yugoslavia for military service, which I refused, this is coming with my back bet, and I can escape ... I four years have no choice with me at my” house, witness Berisha added.

He also stated that he had seen the accused Bajrovic on May 7th, on the hill of Staradran, dividing the column, which he said had been wearing a police uniform and a tin suit, adding that he was not under cover.

And he said that after the columns were divided, they were sent to a school where they had stayed until the next day on May 8th, where he said he saw the accused Bajrovic again.

On the same day, in Zlatca, witness Berisha said one of the persons who have been separating men from families has been the accused Bajrovic.

This (Bajrovic) I remember, Banjaci, Stojkovici, he sat them down, waited for us, that they had played the ceremony with us. They have a store, there have been over 300 people”, said witness Berisha.

On the other hand, the same declared how they were sent to a bar in Zlatza after being separated from columns, where they had even been beaten, as they supported them against the wall.

He said he thinks it was the defendant Bajrovic there, but he couldn't see it, because they were backed up by the wall.

Meanwhile, witness Berisha indicated how more than 100 people were loaded into a truck to be sent to Gurakoci Prison, where he said the accused Bajrovic had been there.

“has taken us to Djurici Prison, and that's where they have (Bajroviq). There's been a hole in the basement of the prison, there's been room 4 to 4, and they've brought in a big pot, and they've got it in the middle to pay for”, he added further.

The witness Berisha then said police have taken over the prison, where, according to him, a beating had occurred.

The same said that at 10 o'clock in the night, they had begun interrogating, adding that they were also beaten and asked to accept everything they said.

For the next day, on May 9th, witness Berisha said that he had been taken by bus to Peja Prison, where they were beaten again, and that they had stayed there until June 10th or 11th.

While adding that on June 10th or 11th, at 2nd of the night, they were expelled from prison after hearing Serbia's bankruptcy celebrated.

“We have been set up from prison at 2 hours of the night, what a horror, because they saw that they lost Kosovo and suffered in prison”, said witness Berisha.

Then, from Peja Prison, he said that he had been sent with more than 10 buses to Guracoci Penitentiary to be supplied with derivatives.

And then he said that they had been sent to the village of Leskoc, where people of the Roma community had been introduced to those buses and beat them in front of the Serbs, from whom they had also been ordered to do so.

Meanwhile, the defender of accused Bajrovic, lawyer Ljubomir Pantovic, has faced witness Berisha with his statement issued at the Police Station in Istog in the past year, which he claimed to be standing next to her.

According to lawyer Pantovic, witness Berisha in that statement had not mentioned accused Bajrovic on any case.

In this regard, however, witness Berisha said in some cases he probably forgot to mention it, and he said that today they have remembered you after telling the whole story.

But for the statement given today, he said that what he said is true.

“I gave my statement, what I said are true”, said witness Berisha.

According to the P indictment The SRK, established on September 15th 2023, Ekrem Bajrovic is being charged during 1998-1999, has committed war crimes against the civilian population, in the municipality of Istog and surrounding villages.

In this indictment, it is said that the same as a member of Serbian police and military forces, individually and in co-ordination with others, has participated and contributed to the application of distress measures of murder, raids, beatings, torture, torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, being held in slavery conditions, deportation and deportation of the civilian population, looting, burning, and destroying the homes of the Albanian national population.

According to this indictment, on May 8, 1999, in the village of Staradran, until the pillar of the Albanian national population was heading towards Albania, it was stopped by Serb police and military forces, including the accused Bajrovic.

On the other hand, men are said to have been separated from the rest of the group, initially taking their money and other valuable items, and then putting them all in the D.Z. backyard. In rows, one by one, with hands raised high, and faces from the wall of the court.

It is further said that the same has been beaten with various means and causing serious bodily injuries, as well as telling you that your NATO “is where you have the KLA”.

The indictment also says that they were then sent one by one to Mr.S.'s house and shot at least 16 Albanian national civilians, with whom the injured/witman Naim Elshani survived, who was wounded and 15 killed.

The indictment says that on May 7th 1999, in the village of Staradran, it has participated in the arrest, kidnapping and mistreatment of 84 civilians of Albanian nationalism.

So that initially the injured are separated from the civilian columns, taken from all their money and other valuables, and then sent to Gurakoc at the Saban Syla bar, where they had been brutally tortured and tortured.

The indictment, however, says that on May 8, 1999, they were transferred to the police station in Gurakoc, where the convoy led the accused Bajrovic and had hit him with the back of the weapon injured Azem Tuzi on the right under the ribs.

Meanwhile, in the end, the indictment says that after the deployment of the police station in Gurakoc, they have begun to torture them inhuman ways by causing serious bodily injury, psychiatric violence, trauma and health consequences and by seriously taking their lives seriously.

So, according to the indictment, there is a well-founded suspicion that the same in co-ordination committed the penal work “wage the war against the civilian population, previously sanctioned and sanctioned with Article 22 of the former RSFJ's” penal law. /“Justice Trust”