3 hours agoInitial sessions against 21 accused of Recak Massacre begin
Periskopi(16 hours ago)
(16 hours ago)At the Foundation Court in Pristina, the initial investigation hearing is held today in the criminal case against 21 defendants charged with Recak Massacre
According to the Court's Special Department's report, it is a criminal case against Zlatomir Pesic, Mladen Cirkovic, Radomir Markovik, Dusko Adamovic, Obrad Stevanovic, Zivko Trajkoviq, Goran Radosavlevleviq, Bogob Janicovic, Slavisa Ivanovic, Bosko Vukic, Sreten Popovic, Nikola Petrovic, Krsman Jelic, Lubisa Stojrovq, Bozi, Borqoj, Stefankosavovo, Dragskovovov, Milokov, Lucov, Boqer, Boqevic, Borqajni, Kovichovac, Kakovac, Milokovac, Kovac, Milokovac, Kovac, Kovachovachovac, Kovac, Kovac, Kovac, Kovac, Kovac, Kovac. The fight against the civilian population”, said the Facebook report.
The court has indicated that, under the Special Prosecutor's Proposal, the trial in this case is expected to take place in the absence of indictees, as the same have been elusive until the moment of the establishment of the indictment.
According to the Special Prosecutor's Proposal of the Republic of Kosovo, the trial in this case will be carried out in the absence of indictees, because the same has been elusive until the moment the indictment was established. For this reason, through this communique, defendants are called on, upstairs to appear and surrender to the Kosovo Republic's prosecution bodies”, it is said among other things in the prosecution's request.
According to the indictment, in 1998 1999, the defendants -- in co-ordination, as members of the former Yugoslavia Army, the “243 mechanized Medchanized”, the III Army, known as the “Corpus of Pristina”, as well as members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) -- have also conducted inhumane treatment, destruction of property, mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of the civilian population.
The defendants first surrounded the village of Recak from countries called Pishat, women, and Çesta. Then, from the distance they promoted the village by military means, searched from house to house, and separated men from women and children, where they were forced out of the village, while the forbidden men executed”, said the Prosecutor's Community.
Prosecutorial investigations have proven that defendants have exercised physical violence against civilians, beating them with arms charges, kicks, wood, chains and other strong means.
About 20,000 rural civilians of Recak, Topill, Petrova, Kras, Mullapolc, Dremek had been expelled from their homes. /Periscope/
