DEATH SENTENCES IN THE KLA

SENSE ^ | February 13, 2005

[joan]

Jakup Krasniqi will continue his testimony at the trial for the crimes in the Lapusnik camp. Vladislav Jovanovic will appear as Slobodan Milosevic’s defense witness. The trials of former BH Army commanders: Sefer Halilovic, Enver Hadzihasanovic, Amir Kubura and Naser Oric will continue. There will also be a hearing on the prosecution application to defer the case of HV generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac to Croatian courts

THE HAGUE, 13.2. (SENSE) - It seems that the most exciting trial next week will be the trial of the three men charged with the crimes in Lapusnik camp, with Kosovo politician Jakup Krasniqi set to continue his testimony. He is a former staff officer on the KLA Main Staff and their spokesperson. Krasniqi came to The Hague as an unwilling witness for the prosecution, after he was issued a subpoena. At the beginning of his testimony last Friday afternoon he confirmed that in 1997 and 1998 the KLA was liquidating Kosovo Albanians suspected of collaboration with the Serbian authorities.

Krasniqi tried to justify this, but was unable to explain how it was determined that a person was a “collaborationist” and what the procedure or court proceedings were in which such persons were sentenced to death. Three former KLA members in the dock – Fatmir Limaj, Isak Musliu and Haradin Bala – are charged with abductions, detention and abuse of prisoners in the Lapusnik camp between May and July 1998, and for summary executions – murders – of 13 Kosovo Albanians and 9 Serbs.

Vladislav Jovanovic should start his testimony as Slobodan Milosevic's defense case continues. He was Serbian foreign minister and the permanent representative of the FRY in the United Nations.

The trial of the former president of Serbia and FRY began on 12 February 2002 and enters into its fourth year on Monday, but its end is nowhere in sight. The trial was interrupted many times because of the ill health of the accused, so that in the past three years the Chamber hearing his case sat for less that 330 days, not full working day but for four hours per session. Of the 150 days allotted for the presentation of his case, Milosevic has so far used up 31. Eighteen defense witnesses were examined in this period.

Three trials of former BH Army commanders will continue next week: Sefer Halilovic, accused of the crimes in the Neretva valley, Enver Hadzihasanovic and Amir Kubura in Central Bosnia and Naser Oric in the Srebrenica area.

The hearing on the prosecution application to refer the case of Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac to Croatian courts will be held on Thursday at the Tribunal, in the absence of the accused. Ademi has been provisionally released while Norac is serving the sentence imposed by the court in Rijeka for the crimes committed in Gospic in 1991. The two HV generals are charged with the crimes in the Medak pocket in 1993. Along with the prosecution and the defense, the participants at the hearing will include representatives of the Croatian government and two professors of international law as amici curiae. This will be the first hearing on the referral of a Tribunal’s case to local courts. The prosecution has so far filed eight such application, involving a total of 18 accused.

[joan]

Many Kosovo Albanians were killed by the KLA, but some of their deaths, or at least the statistics on deaths of Kosovo Albanians, are falsely blamed on Serbs.

[blinachka]

I'd like to know when Hasim Thaci will be prosecuted for his war-crimes! (I won't hold my breath...)

[DTA]

>>>>Many Kosovo Albanians were killed by the KLA, but some of their deaths, or at least the statistics on deaths of Kosovo Albanians, are falsely blamed on Serbs<<<

According to Renatte Flotau interview with Demaqi, more than 1000 Albanians were murdered AFTER the Kosovo NATO occupation.

In one case, the entire family of 12 was wiped out. The graves of people murdered by KLA were dumped with landfill.

The second group of "target of opportunity" for KLA terrorists are Roma with Albanian names. They are useful for Albanian propaganda.

Of course, three wise monkeys of Kosovo (UNMIK, KFOR, Intertnational police) see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil unless when blaming Serbs.

More Albanian civilians were murdered by KLA goons before and after the war then by Serbian army and police

[ehoxha]

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