“Momir Pantiqi I saw on hill”, the witness relates how they were robbed, tortured and expelled from their homes

Witness Rexhaj decoupled that all those expelled from their homes from different villages in the area were in columns with tractors, while right there in the centre of the village of Staradran had seen the accused Pantiq, who, according to him, guided them from where to take their way, reports “The Battle of Justice”, Tnasmeton Periscope

On the day we left the houses, on the hill of Staradran, a tractor in front of me, this Momir Pantiqi I saw on the hill, square”, Rexaj said.

On May 7, 1999, witness Rajaj stressed that they had been taken out of their homes, had been looted, tortured and deported in various ways. He said that there were 20 family members on the tractor, heading toward Kukes.

Parasely, all were gathered at “Grabovce Law”, where they were surrounded by large armed police forces.

“I have a communic with a cop, wrote me the map we have to go in this direction and you have to go to Albania”, Rexaj said.

Asked by special prosecutor Armend Zenelaj concerning the accused, the witness before the court said he knew him as the state security inspector.

“Yes, a period has been the state security inspector, then it is the chief chief chief of the Istogian municipality”, Rexaj said.

According to the indictment, filed on September 1st 2024 by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK), former chief of police station in Istog, Momir Pantic and former police officer Zarko Zaric, are charged that, at co-ordination, the criminal work has been carried out “the crime crime crime of the war against the civilian population”.

According to the indictment, which has secured the “Justice Trust”, on May 19, 1999, in the village of Dubrava, exactly in the Dubrava prison after the NATO bombings, where, in turn, three Albanian prisoners had been killed, Pantiq as head of the police station along with Serb police forces had gone to take control of the situation and after the shelling of the guards have even entered the detention rooms and exercised systematic violence, beating them cruelly and inhumanly, only to be an Albanian.

The indictment reportedly has continued on 21 May, where 18 Albanian prisoners and dozens of others injured remained dead. While the day after the morning, the guards, the prisoners, armed Serbs along with police forces and Special Units who were under the command of the Police Station in Istog, have initially assembled Albanian prisoners in the field of sports, and later, reportedly in the indictment began firing guns of various kinds, while bombs were fired from behind the prison wall in the direction of Albanian prisoners.

Always, referring to the indictment, Serbian police forces at the Police Station in Istog, under Pantic's leadership, also kidnapped an Albanian civilian under the nickname “A1”, which they sexually violated. Besides the victim “A1”, the indictment describes the violation of another victim- “B1”. The two defendants are also charged with killing several families in the Istog municipality.