The Special Prosecution, in collaboration with the Kosovo Police, has conducted an operation following several months of investigation, resulting in the arrest of five individuals suspected of committing war crimes, reports Express.
The arrested individuals are: D.C., D.N., N.S., S.J., and M.Sh. They are suspected of deliberately killing, injuring, burning alive, kidnapping, assaulting, beating, mistreating, and physically and psychologically torturing civilian Albanian victims. They are also accused of looting, destroying the property of Albanians and setting it on fire, expelling the Albanian civilian population, and destroying and abusing cultural and religious sites.
According to the Prosecution, “It is suspected that these individuals, in collaboration with other unidentified members of this group, armed and dressed in camouflaged uniforms or irregular Serbian police or military uniforms, on April 5, 1999, in the early hours of the morning, carried out an operation in the villages of Inatoc (Kokaj), Llovcë, Pogragjë, and Uglar. They deliberately killed, injured, burned alive, kidnapped, assaulted, beat, mistreated, and physically and psychologically tortured Albanian civilian victims. They also looted, destroyed Albanian property and set it on fire, expelled the Albanian civilian population, and destroyed and abused cultural and religious sites. These actions are sanctioned under local laws, the laws of war, and the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols.”
The Prosecution has announced that further legal procedural actions will be taken, and investigations into this criminal case will continue.
