8 hours agoWitness claims that Djokovic was among the uniformed people in Ozdrim in 1999
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(a year ago)At Thursday's session at the Constitutional Court in Pristina, in the war crimes trial against Milorad Djokovic, the witness Florim Gashi was heard, who claimed that the accused was among the uniformised persons in Ozdrim of Pec in 1999, broadcast Periscopi. According to him, on May 7, 1999, Djokovici has been seen wearing [...]
According to him, on May 7, 1999, Djokovici was seen wearing police and armed uniforms, along with several other members of Serbian police and paramilitary forces, reports “Battle for Justice”.
In his testimony, Gashi described the abuses he and his fellow villagers experienced by Serb forces in the village of Ozdrim on May 6th and 7th of 1999.
According to him, the Serbian Army on May 6th 1999, in the early hours of the morning, entered the village, opened fire on houses, forced residents out and then beat them, beaten them, and tortured them.
Gashi said all civilians from the village were later sent to the police station in Ozdrim, where they were mistreated and held for three days without food and water.
After that, as he pointed out, all residents were placed in a aid facility near the police station.
We've been there three days without food and water. Tortures were daily”, the witness declared, stressing that they were later transferred to the Peja prison and later to the Leskoci prison, where he remained for seven months.
He said prison guards from Peja also continued with physical abuse, while living conditions were inhuman.
Moreover, Florim Gashi declared before the court that his brother was killed by Serb forces after trying to escape. His body, as Gashi stressed, was taken only after the war ended.
As for identifying participants, soldiers and policemen, the witness said he knew Milorad Djokovic from before the war, when he worked as director of the Local Office.
In the statement issued in the police in 2022, Gashi had identified Djokovic as “Micko”, one of the uniformed men who had come from Vitomirica and participated in the shares in Ozdrim.
According to the indictment compiled on 23 June 2023, Milorad Djokovic is charged with applying the murder measures, raids, beatings, torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, housing, deportation and deportation of dozens of Albanian civilians. It is also accused of robbing, burning and destroying the homes of the Albanian civilian population.
The indictment said that the northern side of the village of Ozdrimm along the region's Peja Mitrovica route had entered and at the end of the western part of the village of Ozdrimica, which borders on the village of Vitormirica, including members of special military units, began firing weapons in the direction of the civilian population with whom six Albanian national groups were killed: I.C. St. K, E. M, R. Sh, Mr. S and M.H., while three civilians were wounded by these shots: A. G, H.G. and 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 they're missing.
In this regard, Djokovic is charged with conducting co-ordination the criminal work “wage war against the civilian population”, sanctioned by Article 142 concerning Article 22 of the Criminal Law of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (now <x2). RSFJ's LP” as the law in force at the time of the criminal offence. Complete Actakuza You Can Find THESE.
