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In closing statements at the trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three others, prosecutors demanded 45 years in prison for each of them, based on the 'gravity' of the war-crimes charges against them.
Former police commander Dragutin Naskovic denied being present in the eastern villages of Zheger/Zegra and Llashtice/Vlastica, where 29 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed during the war in 1999.
The court sentenced ex-police officer Sacir Lutvija, an ethnic Gorani, to ten years in prison for his involvement in assaulting ethnic Albanian prisoners, one of whom died.
Former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Pjeter Shala appealed against the verdict jailing him for 18 years for war crimes – but the prosecution and victims’ representative insisted the sentencing was fair.
Kosovo's Justice Minister and Albania's Prime Minister slated the decision not to allow former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci to attend his father's funeral on Tuesday as "shameful".