
Basic Court in Pristina, Special Department, has issued an arrest warrant for Milan Radoičić and 19 other Serbs suspected of committing war crimes against the Albanian civilian population in Gjakova in 1998 and 1999.
The news for “Dukagjini” was confirmed by Ilir Morina, Head of the War Crimes Department of the Special Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kosovo (SPRK).
The decision to issue the arrest warrant was made on April 15, 2025 at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office on March 27, 2025.
According to the verdict, the suspects are accused of entering the area known as the “Taliqi Bridge” in Gjakova between May 7 and 10, 1999 as members of Serbian military and police forces and forcibly displacing Albanian civilians there.
They are suspected of separating men from women and children and then executing 106 Albanian civilians. The bodies of the victims were found after the war in a mass grave in Batajnica, Serbia.
The reasoning of the decision states that on March 18, 2025, the Special Prosecutor’s Office issued a decision to initiate an investigation, while the arrest warrant is based on reasonable suspicion of committing the crime of war crimes against the civilian population, originally provided for in Article 142 of the Criminal Code of the former Yugoslavia and now sanctioned in Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo.
Among the persons against whom an arrest warrant has been issued are names such as Milovan Kovačević, Radomir Colić, Miloš Đosan, Predrag Ristić, Srdan Krstić and others./Dukagjini/