The former commander of the Nerodime Zone asks not to be incriminated during the testimony

Initially, he refused to answer the questions, but the witness Shukri Buja, after withdrawing the warning from the trial body, began to give his versions to the Prosecution's questions in the judicial examination of the biggest case of the Special. Buja, former commander of the Operative Zone of Nerodime, who is also mentioned in the indictment for this case, asked not to be incriminated and in some cases said that he did not remember the events of 25 years ago

Shukri Buja, former KLA commander for the Operative Zone of Nerodime, began his testimony in Speciale on Monday. Buja initially did not answer the prosecution's questions, as he asked for a guarantee that he would not be incriminated during his testimony.

The chairman of the court said that the witness has the right not to incriminate himself with his testimony, but he must answer the questions that the court allows, otherwise he will face a fine.

Buja in the indictment against Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selim and Jakup Krasniqi is mentioned as part of the joint criminal enterprise. He said that in the case of Fatmir Limaj's trial two decades ago, he told the truth. And the first accused in the biggest case of the Special, Hashim Thaçi, said that he did not receive orders during the war.

"Do you remember that you told the Hague Tribunal in 2003 or at any other time that an order was sent to you by Hashim Thaçi, that is, that Hashim Thaçi sent you an order to go to your area. Do you remember", he said prosecutor James Pace.

"It could be a wrong statement, otherwise we didn't have orders at that time. We actually decided on our own and announced that I'm going, because I know the terrain there better and the people who are in that terrain," answered Buja.

While most of his testimony Monday was given in closed session, in the open part of it, he said he may have been influenced by postwar propaganda and has often said he doesn't remember the first events of nearly a quarter of a century. . He said that he knew Thaçi as a fellow fighter and that's how he spoke to him, when he was asked about the spring of 1998.

"At that time, I didn't even know Hashim Thaçi as part of the General Staff..."

The Special indictment states that Fatmir Limaj, acquitted by the Hague Tribunal of war crimes charges, and Buja participated in the arrest and detention of persons in Llapushnik in the period April-June 1998 and that Buja was the commander of the Nerodime Zone when arrests and detentions took place in the villages of Kaçanik: Biçec and Ivajë and in Varosh and Ferizaj, in March 99.