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Haradinaj trial: Witness testifies to abduction (elderly Albanian testifies against Haradinaj)
B92 ^ | April 6, 2007

Posted on 04/06/2007 6:30:33 AM PDT by joan

THE HAGUE -- The trial of three former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commanders continued Thursday.

The trial of Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj continued with the testimony of an elderly Albanian man, who gave his evidence as Witness 8, with image and voice distortion.

According to the allegations in the prosecution’s pre-trial brief, Witness 8 gave evidence about an incident on 20 July 1998, when two Albanians were taken off a bus between Đakovica and Priština and subsequently killed.

In his 15-minute long testimony, the witness confirmed he was from the Đakovica area and he was present on the bus from which the two Albanians – Isuf Hoxha and Hajrullah Gashi – were taken off near Mališevo.

Ramush Haradinaj and other uniformed KLA members under his command allegedly entered the bus on 20 July 1998, saying they were looking for Hoxha and Gashi, two Albanian men married to Serb women.

They took Hoxha and Gashi off the bus and drove them in the direction of Glođani in a black Golf vehicle. Their bodies were found in a canal near the Radonjić Lake later that year.

The trial of the three former KLA commanders will continue on Monday, 16 April.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: haradinaj; kla; kosovo

1 posted on 04/06/2007 6:30:36 AM PDT by joan
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To: kronos77; Bokababe; DTA; tgambill

So the KLA/Haradinaj killed other Albanians who were simply married to Serb women. I guess that counted as being a “collaborater” for them.


2 posted on 04/06/2007 6:31:46 AM PDT by joan
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And what's even more noticeable, is the silence from all those so called defenders of Kosovo Albanians.

Here we have a case of Kosovo Albanians being tortured to death because they fell in love with someone who wasn't a Kosovo Albanian, and the best these KLA apologists can do is say nothing.

Their silence damns them.

3 posted on 04/07/2007 6:07:32 PM PDT by Barnsleys Beck
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And of course NATO happily killed civilians on his say so. He was one of the KLA - along with Mujahideen - who were given cell phones and they'd phone in target co ordinates for NATO sorties.

And NATO called it a humanitarian bombing campaign

Beyond parody

4 posted on 04/07/2007 6:16:22 PM PDT by Barnsleys Beck
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To: joan
And of course NATO happily killed civilians on his say so. He was one of the KLA - along with Mujahideen - who were given cell phones and they'd phone in target co ordinates for NATO sorties.

And NATO called it a humanitarian bombing campaign

Beyond parody

5 posted on 04/07/2007 6:16:31 PM PDT by Barnsleys Beck
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