The Kosovo Police, through the Directorate for the Investigation of War Crimes, has arrested today in the village of Soqanica, Leposavic, a male suspect, a Kosovo citizen of Serbian nationality, on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of "War crimes against the civilian population".
According to the investigations conducted, the suspect, during the war in Kosovo, in his capacity as a member of the Serbian MUP and stationed at the Skenderaj Police Station, is suspected of having participated in a police-military operation in March 1999, together with other members of an organized group.
According to the Police, he was uniformed and armed and is suspected of having been involved in the forcible expulsion of civilians from their properties, as well as in the beating, torture, injury and murder of 15 Albanian civilians, as well as in the disappearance of 16 other civilians in two locations in Skenderaj.
The suspect was interviewed in the presence of his lawyer, and by decision of the prosecutor in charge, he was sentenced to 48 hours of detention.
The latest arrest comes a few weeks after the Court in Pristina sentenced two former members of Serbia's police and military forces to prison for war crimes in Kosovo during the 1998-99 war.
On March 18, the court in Pristina sentenced Zoran Kostic to 15 years in prison, while Dragan Milovic to 7 years in prison.
Since the end of the war in Kosovo, local and international judicial institutions have convicted around 74 people for war crimes in Kosovo.
During the war in Kosovo, from 1998 to 1999, over 13.000 civilians were killed, while thousands more disappeared.
Over 1.600 people are still missing - most of them Albanians.
The Kosovo judiciary took over handling war crimes cases in June 2018. The Kosovo Special Prosecution Office has had a war crimes department since 2015.
By the end of 2024, a total of 14 indictments in absentia had been filed against 72 members of the Serbian forces.
At the end of last year, the first verdict in absentia was announced. Çedomir Aksić was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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