Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo. Photo: BIRN
A former commander of a local Serbian police unit in Zvecan was arrested as a suspect in the wartime murders and deportations of ethnic Albanian civilians.
Kosovo’s Special Prosecution announced on Thursday a former local commander in the Serbian police force from Kosovo’s northern municipality of Zvecan has been arrested over war crime allegations.
According to the prosecution, as police commander for Zvecan, the suspect, identified only as M.D., participated in “murders, deportations, looting, torture and the beating of Albanian civilians”.
“It is suspected that during April 1999, M.D., together with Serbian forces organised in structured formations, including Yugoslav Army and Serbian Police, participated in an operation in the village of Zaze, where seven civilians were killed,” the prosecution said in a press release.
The bodies of the killed civilians were found in cemeteries in Suhodoll/Suvi Do near Mitrovica after the war, the prosecution said.
The prosecution said it will file a request to the court for the suspect to be remanded in custody.
15 May 2025 - 17:11
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