The Pristina Basic Court has issued an arrest warrant for Milan Radoicic and 19 others, suspected of war crimes during the Kosovo war in May 1999, in Gjakova/Djakovica.
The court’s decision, dated April 15, explains that the special prosecution is investigating suspicions that in Gjakova/Djakovica, from May 7 to May 10, 1999, the indictees were among uniformed Serbian military and police forces who “entered houses and using force and threats took everyone present out of their homes and separated the men from women and children. Later they killed 106 civilians of Albanian nationality.
“After the war, their bodies were found in a mass grave in Batajnica in Serbia,” the court decision adds.
The court said that Radoicic and the 19 others are suspected of having “arrested and imprisoned 300 other civilians from the Albanian community and other ethnic communities, who were first kept in improvised prisons” and treated inhumanely.
Many of these prisoners were transferred to prisons in Kosovo and eventually to Serbia, to be released after June 1999 with the assistance of the international community, the arrest warrant notes.
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