Court jails Kosovo Albanian army officers PRISTINA, Serbia, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A district court has sentenced three of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian army officers to seven years in jail each for war crimes against civilians.
The Kosovo District Court in Gnjilane, presided by Judge Vioneda Bolero of an international judiciary team, jailed the three men for war crimes, including inhuman treatment of civilians in the Kosovo town of Orahovac in 1998, Belgrade's RTS Serbian radio-television reported Friday. The three officers arrested an undisclosed number of civilians who were last seen alive in 1998. The three men claimed the civilians were agents working for the secret police of the Serbian regime in Belgrade, Kosovo's Pristina Albanian-language media reported Friday. Bolero said the three officers were guilty of committing war crimes and disrespect of international war laws. Serbia's predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province has been under the U.N. administration and NATO troop protection since 1999. U.N.-sponsored talks betwen Serbian officials and representative of the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo are being held in Vienna to decide who will govern Kosovo, once U.N. and NATO personnel leave. © Copyright 2006 United Press International, =============== Group Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
