The Witness relates the persecutions they experienced in the war in Panorc, Malisheva: Indictee Lazovic has brought to the corner.

Initially, witness Ramadan Bacaj before the court confessed the persecutions experienced by Serbian police and military forces and how they were expelled from the village of Panorc, reports “Justice Vow”, broadcast Periscope.

On September 3rd in the afternoon, an unprecedented horror occurred, surrounded us, we were in Panorc, surrounded by Serb police and military forces. Then, they took a move to separate women and children from us men, those of us who were standing there in a row for two of the places where we were surrounded, have led us to the object of elementary school”, said Bacaj witness.

The Witness Bacaj claimed to have been tortured on the way to school.

And even during that trip, about half a mile of road, they've brought into the population everything they can. I've experienced severe injuries and then we've been locked up in that school, with no basic conditions many in a small room, no bread and no water. The next day we've all been thrown into the school yard, and we're sitting on our knees. Various televisions have come with very large cameras of yours and the photographer and the people who let us around, and these are photographed there”, Bacaj said.

Bacaj said there was also the accused Lazovic, who had been tortured.

This (Lazovic) on the way to school has brought the months to the corner, with the condom and the kick”, Bacaj said.

Then was witness Zaim Gashi, who confessed the persecutions he had experienced, also describing what his friends had told him.

They told me we were fucked up. They beat us to death. There's a paramilitar on the door right now why you're sitting there, I told him you don't know, he said we'll be there in a few minutes and we'll do business with you, say Gashi.

The Witness Gashi also mentioned the journey when they were separated and sent to school, accompanied by Serb forces in Panorc.

“continued to combine all three formations, accompanied by policemen, soldiers and paramilitary”, Gashi said.

Initially, special prosecutor Armend Zenelaj stated that during this trial, the testimony of dozens of witnesses will be heard, detailingly describing the actual situation presented in the indictment as well as the role of the accused.

“Today, we are here to seek justice for about 500 citizens of Albanian nationalism, who from September 3rd to September 5, 1998, in the village of Panorc, the Malisheva municipality by Serb police and military forces -- including the accused -- have been separated from women and children, arrested, tortured by being held about 30 hours illegally arrested, in serious living conditions, denying them the fundamental rights of”, prosecutor Zenelaj said.

The prosecutor stressed that these dates had become the expulsion of the civilian population from their homes under gun threat, forcing them to unite in columns to flee in Albania.

Also, with high dates, in the village of Panorc and surrounding villages, using systematic violence has become the expulsion of the population from their homes and then heavy artillery has become the shelling of these villages, to continue the entrances of the house to the house, and under the threat of weapons to drive residents away from their homes, and to force them to join columns to flee in Albania's”, the porcurori said among other things.

While the defender of the defendant Lazovic, lawyer Feride Xani, stated that during this trial and trial management, it will prove that its defender is completely innocent and that the court until the end of this trial will prove his innocence.

At the start of the session, the accused Lazovic was acquitted of the charge being charged.

“I don't feel guilty for this criminal offence that I am charged with”, Lazovic said.

Even at the file session on December 4, 2024, the accused has been declared innocent.

By contrast, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK), on November 19th, 2024, has filed charges against defendants Srdjan Lazovic, for war crimes during 1998-1999 in the village of Panorc of Malisheva municipality.

According to the indictment provided by “Justice Trust”, Srdjan Lazovic is charged in 1998 period of international law, during wartime in Kosovo, in the village of Panorc, Malisheva municipality, acting in co-ordination with still unidentified persons, violated international law rules and carried out arrests and illegal deprivation from freedom, physical and psychic abuse.

In this indictment, ways and circumstances of mistreatment and arrests of the Albanian civilian population have been described, which were not involved in war.

The indictment reportedly states that from September 3rd 1998 to September 5, 1998, in the village of Panorc, the Malisheva municipality, deliberately armed, uniformed, in co-ordination with other members of Serbian police and military forces, with the intent of intimidation, mass deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population, Lazovic has arrested, detained, tortured, physically and psychologically tortured, about 500 civilians, who were not involved in the conflict.

It says that residents of the villages of Malisheva and Cline, along with their families, had been forced to leave their villages and houses, heading towards the mountains of the village of Panorc and most reached in the village of the civilian population, face a roadblock of Serb police forces, who had surrounded the area where the civilian population was located, where Serbian forces are said to originally separate men and children from women, these are giving them orders to leave and some 500 Albanian males are arrested and sent to the village school where they persecute and beat them in their midst, including Ahmeti.

“...as they get to schools that all put into classrooms and keep them trapped for about 30 hours, under serious living conditions, denying them their basic rights for food, water, physical needs, and hence Serb forces, within the school had separated a class separate from other classes where they were keeping the detainees, in which there were several policemen along with the most defendants, Serdjan Lazovaq, who were originally forbidden by some of the Serb forces, then took one from the other class and sent to the class for questioning and beating among them, Z.G., tortured R.R., who were told that they had some of their own strong tools, and other prisoners of drugs, as well as well as well as well as well as well as possible, sent to their own drug vehicles, as well as well as torturers, and car dealers.

On the other hand, it is said that during the time spent on the device I, of this act, the Serb police and military forces that included the defendant Lazovic participated in the expulsion of the civilian population from their homes, so that using systematic and widespread violence had initially surrounded the village of Panorc and surrounding villages and then bombed them with heavy artillery, while in the end they had entered the house and had gone to house and under the threat of weapons, forced residents to flee their homes, forcing them to leave the column of Albania.

Furthermore, they reportedly robbed all civilian homes and transport vehicles, and eventually they burned them all by causing them great material damage.

With these, Srdjan Lazovic is accused of co-ordinating, committing the criminal work “War Against Civil Population”, sanctioned with Article 142 concerning Article 22 of the Socialist Republic's Federalist Republic of Yugoslavia's Federal Law (now “) LP-RSFJ” as a law in effect at the time of the conduct of criminal acts.