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Ardit Kika
- 30 October 2024 19:25
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The witness proposed by the Special Prosecutor's Office in the case where Gavrillo Millosavlević is accused of war crimes, stated before the Basic Court in Pristina that he saw the accused beating one of his fellow prisoners. Millosavlević is also accused of murder during the Dubrava massacre in May 1999. The witness said that there was no prison guard who did not participate in this massacre.
Agron Ramadani, the survivor of the Dubrava massacre, in which Serbian forces killed 109 Albanian civilians, has testified in the case where Gavrillo Millosavlević is accused of war crimes.
In this case, Millosvlević is accused of participating in the murder and mistreatment of Albanian prisoners.
The witness Ramadani said that, in Dubrava prison, he served political punishment for terrorism together with Shkëlzim Zllanoga, who he said was mistreated by the accused.
Fellow sufferers in horror said that there was also the Albanian activity Ukshin Hoti. According to the witness, the accused blamed Hoti for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
"Professor Ukshin Hoti addressed them first, with the words 'because of you we are being bombed' and 'you are a terrorist and we are feeding you with bread', let's all sing now 'who says and who lies that Serbia is small' ", said this witness.
Then, according to Ramadani, the defendant asked Zllanoga to sing a song that says that Serbia is not small and that glorifies the wars that Serbia has fought.
"He told him to sing, but he didn't sing. He grabbed her by the throat, I don't know how many seconds it lasted until Shkëlzim remembers that her eyes popped out", said the witness Ramadani.
The witness Ramadani said that Zllanoga died later in 2000 in Nis prison and that he had a sore throat all the time as a result of the coercion that Millosavlević gave him.
He claimed that a few days before May 22, 1999, the accused forced him to sing the song.
"Masi released Shkëlzim, then Shkëlzim was forced to sing", Ramadan testified.
The witness also said that the mistreatment by the guards was regular and started from 10 o'clock, when the prisoners were expected to sleep.
He did not say that he saw the defendant on May 22, 1999, when the prisoners were massacred in the prison sports field.
However, according to him, there was no guard who did not participate in that massacre.
According to the indictment, over 1000 Albanian prisoners were ordered out of their cells when prison authorities spoke over loudspeakers.
As the prisoners gathered outside, they were shot by guards, military forces, policemen and Serbian civilians with weapons including Kalashnikovs and hand grenades.
Regarding the Dubrava Massacre, one of the largest of the war in Kosovo, no person has been punished so far.
At the conference held at the end of last year, the Special Prosecutor's Office announced that it has under investigation 88 people in absentia related to this massacre.
