Zariq's Pantic judgment, the witness shows how nine family members were killed in front of her, including a 16-year-old

At the Constitutional Court in Pristina in the trial of war crimes indictees, Momir Pantic and Zarko Zariq, who are charged with crimes against the civilian population in the Istog region during 1998-1999, witness Hyla Saliaj indicated on Thursday how nine family forces had been killed before her eyes, including a 16-year-old.
Initially, at the morning session, witness Hyla Saliaj was heard, who declared on the event of August 29th 2026, where she said that Serb police forces originally burned her house, then surrounded her, reports “Justice Vocation“.
We've been taken from there when we're out in the yard, we're gathering three women and 14 children, going out into the yard, killed my brother-in-law's son, 16-year-old, in front of my face”, said witness Saliha.
Saliaj said that that day, police forces have killed nine members of her family.
The guys killed them all, eight members in the family killed them. Another nephew shot at it, 9”, Saliha said.
Following, the witness, Saliha said she saw the bodies of family members, as her cousins gathered them for burial and, according to her, the corpses were in terrible shape.
She said that on the day of the crisis, she saw Serbian forces in police uniforms. And he said he didn't know any of the cops who came to surround the house.
Also, witness Saliha stated that at the time the chief chief of the Istog Police was the accused Pantic.
Following the session, witness Fadil Mavray was heard, who confessed to the events of May 8, 1999, when residents of the village of Saradran were ordered by Serb forces to leave the village.
The Witness claimed that at that time some 20,000 people in the village were gathered, including refugees from Peja and Kline.
The Witness said that the civilian convoy headed for the village of Zalc, where they were stopped by Serb paramilitary forces dressed in red armbands and black masks.
He says the young men were dropped off their tractors and closed in a store, where Serbian forces seized their identification documents, money and gold ornaments.
Mavrej stated that he had seen Gurakoci Police Commander Milos Stojkovic in this country, as well as a policeman named Banjac, who was dressed in camouflage uniform.
Among other things, the witness confessed that about 100 people were loaded into a large truck.
“We were shot into that truck by 100 people... and even the animals there couldn't get anyone to put it at”, said the Mavray witness.
According to him, the truck sent them to the Guracoch prison, where they were placed in basement cells.
The Witness described that in the cell there was a chariot dust that made their breath difficult and claimed that they had been beaten by police.
“To be brought to the head, to the back, to the legs, all over the body of the man”, Mavrate said.
Regarding accused Momir Pantic, the witness stated that after three days he had been sent to an office for questioning where the accused was in civilian clothing and a prosecutor.
The witness claimed that the prosecutor in the office told “why are you in the KLA? ... what are you calling the KLA?
He claimed that despite his civil dress, he had known that Pantic was chief chief of the police station in Istog, since that was what was said at the time. He specified, however, that his civil dress had not seemed strange since he had seen the accused in civilian clothing even earlier in the city.
At the conclusion of the testimony, he announced that after four days of stay in Gurakoc, he had been transferred to the Peja prison for a month and later to prisons in Serbia, both in Leskovc and Zajecar.
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.












